Presidential Signatures

[Laurie Verge]

It just occurred to me that Mr. Lincoln may have been one of the most poorly educated of all of our Chief Executives, but he certainly had one of the most legible signatures. I wish I had had some of the scribble and slashers in my classroom!

I also had one of my staff ask me today what will happen in the next fifty years now that students are no longer being taught cursive (i.e. handwriting when I grew up). How will future historians be able to analyze handwriting from ca. 1600-2050? We have a hard time now deciphering old-time "f's" and "s's," Spencerian script,etc. -- and we know what cursive is.