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 ...

Handwriting today isn't the art form it used to be. ... In the mid-1800s, Platt Rogers Spencer introduced the Spencerian cursive writing system in an attempt to democratize handwriting in the US.

Since the late 1800s, when the typewriter struck the first blow to penmanship, handwriting has become an increasingly obsolete skill, and therefore a powerful symbol of the past. It’s an ...

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 evolved from the Italic calligraphy hand. Skip to main content ... (1800-1864), who founded a school to teach his ornate, elegant style.

It's a result of her work with handwriting analysis. Skip to Article. ... Platt Rogers Spencer (Nov. 7, 1800-May 16, 1864) developed one of the earliest systems of cursive handwriting.

A discussion of whether cursive handwriting retains any continued significance was sparked Tuesday by SouthtownStar columnist ... and may need to mark an X "like illiterate people did in the 1800s." ...