A-Z Databases

Provides millions of articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources with extensive coverage in key subject areas, such as biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental science, history, marketing, political science, and psychology.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS (ATLAS PLUS) combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's largest collection of full text religion and theology journals. ATLAS PLUS contains more than 450 full text titles, including all ATLASerials titles and content previously available in the ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.

A collection of over 3,000 academic journals and over 70,000 ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Also includes over a million images, letters, and other primary sources. Most journals are covered from their first issue up to 3-5 years from the current year, and include previous titles. Also includes the current issues of some titles. Note: there are some journals in JSTOR for which Sewanee does not have full-text access. In the Advanced search you can limit to only the content available to you.

Covering North America’s diverse religious traditions, this resource provides reliable and peer-reviewed information for students and instructors of religious studies, anthropology of religion, sociology of religion, and history. Peer-reviewed articles are organized around key themes. "The Basics" Sections cover broad global introductions to religious traditions. "Religious Traditions" and "Themes in Religion" Sections give more of an in-depth approach to the North American context and combine overview articles, main articles, case studies, and hot topics as well as eBook content.

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation of Franco Montanari's Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. With 140,000 entries and new entries being added (online) on a regular basis, this is the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek and an invaluable tool for students and advanced scholars alike.

Time Period: 1645-1819 Location: North America Every major book about Native Peoples from this period is included, along with treaties, transcribed letters from Native American leaders, the minutes of tribal meetings, histories of numerous tribes, missionary reports, captivity narratives, firsthand accounts of battles, trading records, military rosters, expedition logs and maps, trial records, legislative bills, books on Native American languages and grammar, military rosters, governors' and legislators' reports, ballads, songs, plays and more. Offers text and data analysis tools, author biographies, and suggested search paths for easy browsing and discovery.

The Bell Route of the Trail of Tears passed through what is now the greater campus of Sewanee—The University of the South. This digital archive is a project developed in Sewanee classrooms to better understand our local history of Cherokee Removal. The Bell Route, one of several routes used during Cherokee Removal, was traveled by a group of about 650 Cherokee people from October 1838 to January 1839. This database includes sources about the Bell Route for research and reference. The Origins section illustrates the background of Bell Detachment members in the Cherokee homeland. Route explores the logistics in their forced emigration. Aftermath investigates the lives of Bell Detachment survivors in the Cherokee Nation west. Context offers more information with guided reading of sources, and our Search feature invites you to explore across the record groups.

Time period: 1980-present
Location: United States
U.S. Newsstream (from ProQuest) enables users to search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. This contemporary news collection delivers current, full-text news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites. The collection offers access to major national sources including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN Newswires, and the Huffington Post. It also offers exclusive access to over 80 Gannett regional newspapers and includes hundreds of other local, regional, and national titles from throughout the U.S. All content can be searched together or separately.

The following U.S. regional collections are included:

• U.S. Midwest Newsstream
• U.S. Southeast Newsstream
• U.S. North Central Newsstream
• U.S. Northeast Newsstream
• U.S. South Central Newsstream
• U.S. West Newsstream

Key U.S. titles include: 

• The New York Times (from 1980 forward)
• The Wall Street Journal (from 1984 forward)
• The Washington Post (from 1987 forward)
• Los Angeles Times (from 1985 forward)
• Chicago Tribune (from 1985 forward)
• The Boston Globe (from 1980 forward).