Yesterday, author Kate Buford commented in The Readex Blog about the research value of historical newspapers.

Buford said, “I sure wish the ever-expanding resource of digitized historical newspaper archives had been available in its present form to draw on in 2002 when I started the research for Native American Son.”

Native American Son is the first comprehensive biography of the legendary Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete in U.S. history.

Read more of Buford’s comments here. She’ll have more in the upcoming issue of The Readex Report.

Also featured yesterday was James Crews’ poem “Looking Back” from his poetry collection The Book of What Stays. 

Read the poem at Poetry Daily.

And Chris Lamb, author of Conspiracy of Silence, wrote an op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times about Jackie Robinson titled “Jackie Robinson – crossing the line.”

Read about Robinson’s journey to breaking the color barrier here.