History Elsewhere on the Web
Early Doc
Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I
John McCarthy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
April 1960
The Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual
McCarthy, Levin, et al; MIT Press, 1962
Looking Back
History of Lisp
John McCarthy, February, 1979
LISP-NOTES ON ITS PAST AND FUTURE-1980
John McCarthy
Early LISP History (1956-1959)
by Herbert Stoyan University of Erlangen-N"urnberg
The Influence of the Designer on the Design -- J. McCarthy and LISP
by Herbert Stoyan University of Erlangen-N"urnberg
Brief History of the Lisp Language
Extracted from the Common Lisp specification by Kent M Pitman
The Evolution of Lisp
Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel, 1993
Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big
Richard Gabriel
Other Lisp History Collections
John McCarthy's Home Page
Lisp History
and
Lisp Articles
Curator: Paul Graham
Lisp History
Curator: Herbert Stoyan
ALU Lisp History
History of Lisp at Computer History Museum
Curator: Paul McJones
Pages about Lisp's history
[New, original recollections eagerly sought]