Revolutionary Women: The Women Who Published Newspapers During Our Nation’s Founding

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05/06/2026 02:55 PM EDT

During the Revolutionary War, many newspapers were run as family businesses. Read more about two women who inherited newspapers from their deceased husbands and continued to publish these newspapers during the war: Hannah Watson of the Connecticut Courant and Ann Timothy of the Gazette of the State of South-Carolina.

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