When the Titanic sank 110 years ago today — on April 15, 1912, it was, of course, front-page news. Almost immediately, it seems readers began sending The Times poems they had written about the tragedy.

@Kaitlin_M_Ruiz @Richard_Kadrey Oh, now I've had to do a deep dive into the Times archive looking for pieces on the "Forty Elephants" gang, and I was ... not disappointed. @Kaitlin_M_Ruiz @Richard_Kadrey

One of my favorite holiday stories from the paper's archives is this one, about the electrician who decided to sting colored lights on the family's Christmas tree (1884) Mr Johnson, president of the Edison Company for Electric Lighting, wanted his children to have a "novel Christmas tree"

The NYT headlines from the 1918 influenza epidemic mirror the ones from today, it seems. Here's 9/13/18 9/16/1918

Going to live-tweet the president's speech using over-the-top 19th-century NYT headlines again.

Excellent 19th-century NYT headlines and a few more

OK, I discovered that the NYT printed a *second* installment of book reviews by Sing Sing prisoners in 1911

1911: After discovering that prisoners at Sing Sing have been reviewing books for their prison newspaper, the NYT reprints as many of their pieces as possible