I don't remember if this has been mentioned before on this list (please forgive me if it has). I was going through my to-read pile of journals recently and noticed this publication in the June 2015 issue of the Communications of the ACM (pp. 71-76). Lamports says in the introduction: "This is a personal view of the first dozen years of the history of the field of concurrency--a view from today based on 40 years of hindsight.", i.e., it is at least somewhat of a computing history paper (with technical content).