History Elsewhere on the Web
Early Doc
Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part Ibr
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
Pages about Lisp's history
[New, original recollections eagerly sought]