The Gutenberg-e Prize was established in 1999 through the efforts of AHA President Robert Darnton and generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The prize competition was intended to encourage the electronic publication of the best history dissertations including those in fields where the traditional monograph has become endangered. The AHA awarded six prizes a year through 2004. Each prize consisted of a $20,000 fellowship to be used by the author for converting the dissertation into an electronic monograph of the highest quality to be published by Columbia University Press.

2004
Sherry Fields, Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico (Univ. of California, Davis)
Rhonda Gonzales, Continuity and Change: Thought, Belief, and Practice in the History of the Ruvu Peoples of Central East Tanzania, c. 200 BC to AD 1800 (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)
Sarah A. Gordon, 'Make It Yourself': Home Sewing, Gender and Culture, 1890-1930 (Rutgers Univ.)
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Inter-Regional Trade and Colonial State Formation in 19th-Century Afghanistan (Univ. of Michigan)
Robert Kirkbride, Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro (McGill Univ.)
Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw, Caught in the Crossfire: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Communism and the Politics of Americanism in the Hollywood Career of Adrian Scott (State Univ. of New York at Binghamton)
Laura Mitchell, Contested Terrains: Property and Labor on the Cedarberg Frontier, 1725-c. 1830 (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)
Bin Yang, Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan, Second Century BCE-Twentieth Century CE (Northeastern Univ.)

2003
Joshua Greenberg, Advocating 'The Man': Masculinity, Organized Labor and the Market Revolution in New York, 1800-1840 (American Univ.)
Tim Hodgdon, Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965-83 (Arizona State Univ.)
Daniella Kostroun, Undermining Obedience in Absolutist France: The Case of the Port Royal Nuns, 1609-1709 (Duke Univ.)
Erika Lindgren, Environment and Spirituality of German Dominican Women, 1230-1370 (Univ. of Iowa)
Jeri McIntosh, Sovereign Princesses: Mary and Elizabeth Tudor as Heads of Princely Households and the Accomplishment of the Female Succession, 1516-53 (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Ann Pfau, Miss Yourlovin: Women in the Culture of American World War II Soldiers (Rutgers Univ.)
Margaret Poulos, Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity (Univ. of Sydney)
Kirsten Rambo, 'Trivial Complaints': The Role of Privacy in domestic Violence Law and Activism in the US (Emory Univ.)
Maria Rentetzi, Gender, Politics, and Radioactivity Research in Vienna, 1910-38 (Virginia Tech)
John Haddad, 'The American Marco Polo': Excursions to a Virtual China in US Popular Culture, 1784-1912 (Univ. of Texas, Austin)
Willeen Keough, The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Southern Avalon, 1750-1860 (Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland)
Dorothea McCullough, 'By Cash and Eggs': Gender in Washington County during Indiana's Pioneer Period (Indiana Univ.)

2001
Tonio Andrade, Commerce, Culture, and Conflict: Taiwan under European Rule, 1623-62 (Yale Univ.)
Kenneth Estes, A European Anabasis: Western European Volunteers in the German Army and SS, 1940-45 (Univ. of Maryland)
Daniel Kowalsky, The Soviet Union and the Spanish Republic: Diplomatic, Military, and Cultural Relations, 1936-39 (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
W. Sanders Marble, 'The Infantry Cannot Do with a Gun Less': The Place of the Artillery in the BEF, 1914-1918 (King's Coll., Univ. of London)
Chris O'Sullivan, Sumner Welles, Postwar Planning, and the Quest for a New World Order, 1937-43 (London Sch. of Economics, Univ. of London)
Kenneth Steuer, Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I, 1914-23 (Univ. of Minnesota)

2000
Gregory Brown, A Field of Honor: The Cultural Politics of Playwriting in 18th-Century France (Columbia Univ.)
Mary Halavais, Like Wheat to the Miller: Community, Convivencia, and the Construction of Morisco Identity in 16th-Century Aragon (Univ. of California, San Diego)
Wayne Hanley, The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796-99 (Univ. of Missouri)
Sarah Lowengard, Color Practices, Color Theories, and the Creation of Color in Objects: Britain and France in the 18th Century (State Univ. of New York at Stony BrooK)
William MacLehose, 'A Tender Age': Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the 12th and 13th Centuries (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
Michael Smith, Anti-Radical Expression: Counter-Revolutionary Thought in the Age of Revolution (Univ. of California, Riverside)

1999
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, The 'Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe': Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darién, 1640-1750 (Princeton Univ.)
Heidi Gengenbach, Where Women Make History: Pots, Stories, Tattoos, and Other Gendered Accounts of Community and Change in Magude District, Mozambique, c. 1800 to the Present (Univ. of Minnesota)
Anne Hardgrove, Community as Public Culture in Modern India: The Marwaris of Calcutta, c. 1897-1997 (Univ. of Michigan)
Jacqueline Holler, Escogidas Plantas: Nuns and Beatas in Mexico City, 1531-1601 (Emory Univ.)
Michael Katten, Category Creation and the Colonial Setting: Identity Formation in 19th-Century Telugu-Speaking India (Univ. of California at Berkeley)
Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, 'I Saw a Nightmare ...': Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 (Univ. of Minnesota)