More information on the Putnam Competition can be found
in two articles in the May 1965 issue of the American Mathematical Monthly.
Garrett Birkhoff described in one the early history and L. E. Bush gave
in the other the later history and a summary of results up to that time.
There are three Putnam problem books that contain collections of problems
with solutions as well as historical information about the competition:
(1) A. M. Gleason, R. E. Greenwood and L. M. Kelly, The William Lowell
Putnam Mathematical Competition/Problems and Solutions: 1938-1964,
(2) Gerald L. Alexanderson, Leonard F. Klosinski and Loren C. Larson, The
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition/Problems and Solutions:
1965-1984, and (3) Kiran S. Kedlaya, Bjorn Poonen and Ravi Vakil,
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985-2000 Problems,
Solutiions and Commentary.
The questions on the Putnam examination are regularly published in the Monthly.
The following issues of the Monthly contain questions, and sometimes
solutions, for earlier competitions:
| May 1942 | Oct . 1946 | Aug.-Sept. 1947 | Dec. 1948 |
| Aug.-Sept. 1949 | Aug.-Sept. 1950 | Aug.-Sept. 1951 | Oct. 1952 |
| Oct. 1953 | Oct. 1954 | Oct. 1955 | Jan. 1957 |
| Nov. 1957 | Jan. 1961 | Aug.-Sept. 1961 | Oct. 1962 |
| Aug.-Sept. 1963 | June-July 1964 | Aug.-Sept. 1965 | Aug.-Sept. 1966 |
| Aug.-Sept. 1967 | Aug.-Sept.1968 | Oct. 1969 | Aug.-Sept. 1970 |
| Aug.-Sept. 1971 | Feb. 1973 | Nov. 1973 | Dec. 1974 |
| Nov. 1975 | Nov. 1976 | Jan. 1978 | Mar. 1979 |
| Nov. 1979 | Oct. 1980 | Oct. 1981 | Nov. 1982 |
| Oct. 1983 | Oct. 1984 | Oct. 1985 | Oct. 1986 |
| Oct. 1987 | Oct. 1988 | Oct. 1989 | April 1991 |
| Oct. 1991 | Oct. 1992 | Oct. 1993 | Oct. 1994 |
| Oct. 1995 | Oct. 1996 | Oct. 1997 | Oct. 1998 |
| Nov. 1999 | Oct. 2000 | Nov. 2001 | Nov. 2002 |
| Oct. 2003 | Oct. 2004 | Oct. 2005 | Oct. 2006 |
| Oct. 2007 | Oct. 2008 |