Born in 1738, Mary Katharine Goddard came of age in colonial Connecticut as the nation prepared for the American Revolution. She became a business woman and newspaper publisher, which defied societal norms. When the Continental Congress decreed that the Declaration of Independence be widely distributed, one person offered to print the document—boldly inserting her name at the bottom with a printing credit: Mary Katharine Goddard. Here's the biography of a groundbreaking woman who had the courage to write herself into history.