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Kenneth Rendell: The Importance of Handwriting

As we have seen over time, trends in handwriting styles change. Yet, nothing has prepared us for the fast drop off in the teaching of handwriting. Not just cursive, but the ability of people to print. Somewhere along the way, communicate without writing with a pen or pencil has become [...]

2022-11-28T14:20:56-05:00November 28, 2022|News|

Digest: October – November 2022

Manuscript Digest:  October – November 2022 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and ephemera, document conservation, and more news in this digest … […]

2022-11-03T12:32:03-04:00November 3, 2022|MS Digest|

Cursive Writing and Reading History

Reading History in Real Documents Drew Gilpin Faust, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, shares a lesson she learned when students in her undergraduate history class could not read documents written by soldiers and others during the Civil War. Why could they not read them? They were written [...]

2025-05-14T15:39:14-04:00October 21, 2022|News|
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