I received an email stating that the New York Times archives were free for a trial period. I had been looking at it for almost a week now and not even realizing you could go back to 1851 and see selected articles of the Titanic sinking and the Eiffel Tower reaching its height. Thanks for the tip about free New York Times. This looks like a week long promotion for the New York Times to increase online and print customers since it’s just a tease that ends in a day or so. I have to wonder how charging for their content is working out for them. I quit visiting their website because the main thing I was interested in was the editorials and they don’t even let you peek at those anymore without paying $60 or so a year.

You only have a few more days to browse through the archives but its neat they back date all the way until 1851. As you can see below it has been since 1916 since the first woman was elected to Congress and we finally have the first woman speaker of the House. Here are some of the articles from the files of the New York Times:

• March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963
• Supreme Court Ruling on School Segregation, May 18, 1954
• The Defense of Fort Sumter, April 19, 1861
• Draft Riots, July 14, 1863
• Gen. Sherman Marches Into Atlanta, Sept. 3, 1864
• Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 23, 1962
• Sinking of the Titanic, April 16, 1912
• Hindenburg Burns, May 8, 1937
• Review: Elvis Presley on the Milton Berle Show, June 6, 1956
• Prohibition Begins, Jan. 1, 1920
• First Woman Elected to Congress, Nov. 12, 1916
• Opening of the Subways, Oct. 28, 1904
• Opening of the World Trade Center, April 5, 1973
• Moon Landing, July 21, 1969
• Publication of Pentagon Papers Allowed, July 1, 1971
• Versailles Treaty Signed, Jan. 11, 1920
• German Reparations, April 28, 1921
• Nazi Troops March, April 6, 1941
• Report From Iwo Jima, Feb. 25, 1945