Jan. 23, is the birthday of John Hancock — the first man to sign the Declaration of Independence — and in a nod to his place in history, it’s also National Handwriting Day. In 2010, a ...

Do you want something challenging to tackle? Can you read cursive handwriting? If so, the National Archives and the National ...

Carrie Underwood probably had a vision of how her version of “America the Beautiful” would be received after accepting Donald ...

In our fast-paced digital age, handwriting—a skill refined over 5,500 years of human history—is increasingly becoming a lost ...

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In 2010, the newly established Common Core State Standards program, which outlines skills and knowledge students should acquire between kindergarten and high school, did not include cursive in its ...

What’s it like teaching first, fifth and sixth graders all in one day? School librarian Jami Rhue shares her experience.

Curling, a 500-year-old sport of stones, brooms, and ice, is thriving in the Midwest. What no biographer should claim, as Max Boot does, is that his or her accounts are ‘strictly factual.’ ...

This week, we’re waiting for real reparations, keeping a body count, asking for Severance, and practising cursive ...

What do you know about the Harlem Renaissance? How does the movement still resonate today? Post your comments and questions for our journalist Veronica Chambers by Jan. 30. By The Learning ...

Ker Than is a freelance science writer living in the Bay Area. He has written for National Geographic, New Scientist, and Popular Science. Researchers have found that stalagmites can help ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” Colin Schultz ...