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Historical Studies

Why Do I Need to Learn Cursive Now?

Many historical documents were handwritten in cursive - the Dead Sea Scrolls, Declaration of Independence, manumissions of enslaved persons, census forms, letters from Civil War soldiers, the original manuscript of Mary Shelley's Frankestein, minutes from the meetings of the National Organization of Women. In order to conduct historical research, you may need to learn how to read handwritten documents. Watch the videos and look at the samples below to learn how to do this. 

Basic Handwriting Tutorials

Can You Read This?

Techniques for Reading Old Documents (English)