How Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard put her name on America’s founding document – in 1777

Amy Kimball and Margaret Burri stand over Goddard’s Declaration of Independence and other artifacts at the Evergreen Museum and Library.

Nearly 250 years ago, a Baltimore woman put her name on the Declaration of Independence, joining the likes of John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

Just like those founding fathers, Mary Katharine Goddard risked everything as she made the second printing of the Declaration of Independence…

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