"Though other books provide similar content, none have the extensive coverage and timeliness of Royles’s work. . . .  A highly useful and important tool for researchers and high school and college students and teachers." (Library Journal starred review of The Schlager Anthology of Black America)

“A valuable resource for high schoolers and undergraduates researching 'Manifest Destiny' in the U.S.” (Library Journal review of The Schlager Anthology of Westward Expansion)

"This set will undoubtedly become the premier reference work devoted to the subject. The signed essays are comprehensive, the writing is terrific, the research is outstanding, and the depth of analysis noteworthy." (ARBA review of Milestone Documents in American History)