THROUGH THE EYES OF CHILDREN

A remarkable, mesmerizing collection of photographs of children, many from the US Library of Congress, that trace the changing experience of childhood in the U.S. since the dawn of photography in the mid 19th century.

THROUGH THE EYES OF CHILDREN is a carefully edited, photographic record of the lives of American children, accompanied by brief, thoughtful essays on aspects of their experiences. There are dozens pictures of children in this book, ranging over the history of the American nation. Some of the people in these pictures would go on to fame (or infamy). But for the great bulk of them, a photograph is likely the only public trace they have left behind.


Todd Brewster is a veteran journalist and historian. He was a senior editor at Time, Inc. and a senior producer at ABC News. He is the co-author, with Peter Jennings, of the NYT #1 bestselling book, The Century, which spent 48 weeks on the bestseller list, and the author of the acclaimed Lincoln's Gamble (Scribner, 2014). Brewster was the founding director of Center for Oral History at West Point and the executive producer of Into Harm's Way, an award-winning documentary about the West Point Class of 1967. He has taught journalism at Temple University and Mount Holyoke College, where he was Senior Visiting Lecturer from 2017-2021. Brewster. A native of Indianapolis Indiana, he was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 2000. He lives in Ridgefield, CT.