The American Council of Learned Societies has received a $3-million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to sponsor an electronic publishing initiative for books of high quality in the field of history: the History E-Book Project. During the first five years of this project (1999-2004), ACLS will collaborate with five Learned Societies and a select group of University Presses to publish these electronic books, exploring the intellectual possibilities of new technologies and helping to assure the continued viability of history writing in today's publishing environment.