After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard ... the students carefully followed instructions from Durelli to write the lowercase letters. They traced a word ...

and by probably second grade were making that transition from easy Zorro-like lowercase Zs to the quite mature-looking double-squiggle of the cursive version. It was as though our handwriting was ...

If you cannot decipher cursive, you can’t really experience literature’s great works in their original version. Same for history’s more important letters, diaries, ledgers and other records, including ...

The origin of the terms uppercase and lowercase might seem pretty self-explanatory ... because the letters were easily strung together as cursive (though cursive majuscule did exist).