Southern and Western American Sacred Music and Influential Sources (1700-1870) (SWASMIS), a new research database, chronicles the history and dissemination of sacred music from Europe and the American Eastern Seaboard to the American south and west from the Colonial Period to the Era of Reconstruction following the American Civil War (1750-1870). It catalogs every known southern and western sacred music composition appearing in manuscript and printed sources, as well as the significant material that directly influenced these compilers. Not confined to English-language tunebooks, this database also documents source material in a variety of Old and New World languages, including German, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Latin and Hebrew from European settlers, and Cherokee, Choctaw, Dakota, Hawaiian, Lenape, and Seneca for Native Americans.