Testimonials

"The winning index must be accurate and useful to the reader, but it must also be unusually elegant in its style and its synthesis of the information in the text. Laura Gottlieb's index meets all of these criteria. ... Laura Gottlieb has gracefully extracted the conceptual material from this narrative and made it accessible to the reader in a coherent index structure. Her expressive subheadings capture beautifully the tone of the text and her cross-references make the index structure clear."

— Do Mi Stauber, 1998 Chair of the American Society of Indexers’ Wilson Award Committee

"Laura Gottlieb has been by far my first choice for consistently high-quality indexing work. She combines thorough professionalism and a wide-ranging intelligence with warmth and connectedness...She has been sensitive and accommodating of the varying personalities
and needs of my authors, working happily with all of them, producing superior indexes—and always on schedule...She is comfortable negotiating even the most arcane, complex, and dense scholarly terrain in a variety of disciplines...She raises indexing to the level of an intellectual art."

— Carol Betsch, Managing Editor, University of Massachusetts Press

"Thanks for a first-rate piece of work, done with great skill and sensitivity to content. You were attentive to detail, never missing a name or a place, but also connecting themes that run through chapters with remarkable perspicacity. I cannot imagine a more satisfactory index."

— David J. Weber, author of The Spanish Frontier in North America (1992) and Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment (2005)

"Reading the index was a joy. The work you did was thorough, complete, and even included ways of slicing and dividing the subject matter that never would have occurred to me. I was delighted. Many thanks for a job really well done."

—Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains: Prophets, Slaves, and Rebels in the First Human Rights Crusade

"You have contributed significantly to the book's usability and, hence, its value.”

— Steve Hoelscher, author of Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America’s Little Switzerland

“[Your] index makes it a better book and also makes it seem a better book.”

—Hendrik Hartog, author of Man and Wife in America: A History