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Todd Brewster

New York Times Bestselling Author, Former Senior Producer of ABC News and Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Mount Holyoke College

Todd Brewster is a veteran journalist and historian who has served as Senior Producer of ABC News, and a Senior Editor with Time. He is the co-author, with the late Peter Jennings, of the monumental best-seller The Century and was executive producer of the award- winning ABC documentary series of the same name. He has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Time. In 2014, his book on the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s Gamble, appeared to great critical acclaim. Brewster has served as Knight Fellow at Yale Law School and has taught journalism and constitutional law at Temple University, Wesleyan University, and until 2022 was Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Mount Holyoke College. He is the founding director of The Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution. From 2008-2012, he was the director of the Center for Oral History at West Point. His most recent books are Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media and the Fight For Racial Justice (2022), co-authored with Marc Lamont Hill, and American Childhood: A Photographic History (2023). Ken Burns has described American Childhood as a “stirring” history, filled with “potentiality and hope.”