Elizabeth Spedding Calciano: Founding Director of the Regional History Project, UCSC Library

Interview by Cameron Vanderscoff; Edited by Cameron Vanderscoff and Irene Reti

2020, 354 pages

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This set of interviews with Elizabeth Spedding Calciano make up the rare project that is not just a life history, but an oral history of and about oral history itself. While Calciano has thrived in multiple professions and jobs, including a forty-plus year career as a lawyer, this volume focuses on her years as the founding head of the Regional History Project at UC Santa Cruz from 1963 to 1974.