Drupal 7: how to create drop-down menu for monthly archive?

I'd like to be able to display a block on the right sidebar with a drop-down menu for the monthly archives ("blog post" content type). Exactly as shown in the following 开发者_如何学Cscreenshot taken from http://curbed.com/

Can anybody please advise me on how to do this with Drupal 7? Thanks!

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Use "Exposed form" from Views module.