This month marks 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe. That anniversary is resonating for NPR's Bob Mondello because his family recently found some long-forgotten letters his mother had ...

Unlike so many of Sherald’s elegantly posh subjects, he dons a modest, white ribbed undershirt and his facial hair seems ...

The National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) has decided to convert its vast collection of Japanese military records ...

Our online historical research service is a great place to start if you want to trace a person's family tree—it's free ... by the Registrar-General of the time. Sometimes the cursive writing may not ...

Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction.

At Indian Mills School, Durelli’s fourth graders began the school year with cursive writing instruction twice a week and then shifted to independent learning later in the year. Durelli used a ...