As the U.S. educational system developed, new types of cursive writing emerged. One, Spencerian script, was inspired by American landscapes and became a widespread—and uniquely American—school ...

Handwriting today isn't the art form it used to be. Here's how penmanship has evolved — or rather, declined — throughout history.

Niccoli’s cursive was simple, sans curly-cues, and […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. ... which was pretty ornate by today’s standards and known as Spencerian, for Platt ...

Don’t write off cursive yet National Museum of American History. View Blog post for Don’t write off cursive yet. CC0 Usage Conditions Apply Click for more information. ... This lap desk from 1877 with ...

Spencerian Script flourished from 1850 to 1925 and is still seen today in the logos for Ford and Coca-Cola. • As the typewriter became more widely used for business letters, ...

CINCINNATI Brad Underwood - The cursive comeback!It may be hard to believe to some, but cursive writing and even daily handwriting is becoming a dying art. Its not taught in most schools anymore ...

Words are an essential means of communication, yet how we put them down in writing has been continuously shaped over time by technologies, cultural and business needs, and education. Once a universal ...