A Reading List on History of Special Topics in Mathematics has been prepared by Victor Katz.
Here is a bibliography for high school teachers that provides some useful sources at a lower level.
One assignment I give my students is to browse through periodicals and report on some of the historical articles they find. Here is a bibliography of periodicals that I distribute to my students. Perhaps you will be interested in some of the results of this bibliography prepared by students.
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V. Frederick Rickey at
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Posted 14 December 1996.
Revised December 2005.