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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.
Spencerian cursive. In the 1860s, schools across the United States were teaching their pupils the Spencerian style, a decorative writing form developed in the mid-1800s by Platt Rogers Spencer.The ...
Ray Rieser Sunday, March 12, 2023 12:01 p.m. | Sunday, March 12, 2023 12:01 p.m. Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on pens and penmanship. As beautiful writing instruments ...
Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...