A Michigan lawmaker has introduced a bill to reintroduce cursive writing instruction in schools as an option. Proponents argue cursive connects students to history, improves cognitive function, and ...

A once-stolen collection of letters written by the Romantic poet John Keats to his fiancée Fanny Brawne will be sold at Sotheby’s New York this June with an estimate of $1.5 million to $2.5 million.

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms. Credit ...

Martin Short remembers the "drop dead beautiful" Nancy Dolman, to whom he was married in 1980, in new documentary Marty, Life Is Short. Dolman died of ovarian cancer in 2010. The late Catherine O'Hara ...

Sat, May 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM UTC "My husband and I went through a little rough patch, and we went to therapy," O'Hara says. "And one of the questions she was, 'Do you have friends, do you know a couple ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Melody Eichbauer grew up learning cursive in grade school and scribbling exam answers until her hand cramped well into her college years. Eichbauer, a professor of medieval, legal ...

The letters can travel the world for years. One enthusiast is on a quest to find them—and to track down the writers behind them. Lauren Collins reports from an expedition.

Conor Orr applauds the Cardinals for going against prevailing arguments about positional value and taking an elite running back prospect. Drafting Jeremiyah Love as highly as the Cardinals did with ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A new law will ensure that cursive doesn't become a lost art for students in the state of Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping education bill (SB 182) on Monday that, among ...

Despite A.I.’s many downsides, the tech is also increasingly handling menial tasks like studying brushstrokes and scouring the desert for archaeological treasures, thus enabling academics to focus on ...

In addition to 54 poems, John Keats wrote some three dozen love letters to his fiancée, Fanny Brawne. Joseph Severn painted this portrait of the poet in 1819. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons A set ...