By the late 1800s, publisher and educator Austin Norman Palmer from Fort Jackson, N.Y., developed a new cursive style that was dubbed "The Palmer Method," according to the NMAH.

The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.

The Palmer method. Spencerian cursive was replaced in 1890 by a less ... “They promoted manuscript printing for students in the elementary grades instead of the joined writing, or cursive. ...

Just how long have humans been using cursive writing? Scholars credit Niccolo Niccoli, a 15th Century Italian, for “inventing” our modern-day cursive, although it had been evolving long… ...

In the 1960s, the Palmer Method was later supplanted by two other forms of cursive — the Zaner-Bloser Method and the D’Nealian method. The D'Nealian method of cursive writing is one of the two ...

She earned it “For Merit” in “Palmer Method Writing,” the system of teaching cursive introduced in Austin Palmer’s 1894 book “Palmer’s Guide to Business Writing.” It emphasized ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

I went to a Catholic school in Watertown and we actually had writing classes in the Palmer Method. I still enjoy writing and some of my nieces still write notes; also, my son and daughter. We do ...

Pennsylvania teachers may soon have to dust off their old cursive instruction books. The State House passed a bill Tuesday ...