How can I make this with the Views module?
How to show only oldest and newest node in Drupal views?

Check this out, I believe you will definately get answer with views, contextual filters.
and with the content type = Article and display only 2 with help of PAGER..

Extended answer



And when select that option, you will get another pop like below image



After making up a selection, write how many items you want to display.



And if you want to add see the month, why you just add fields to display.
also add a content posted date field below image will help out