Given the importance of local historical documents to national understanding and development, the General Historica of Taiwan Province was founded on 1 June 1948 for the compilation of Taiwan general history.
It was reorganized to form the Provincial Documents Committee of Taiwan in July 1949, in which Committee Members carried out research on archives, and the Acquisition, Arrangement and Editing Sections took charge of acquiring, arranging, preserving, compiling and publishing historical materials of Taiwan.
The Committee was first affiliated to the Civil Affairs Department in 1958, then to the Cultural Affairs Department in 1997, and to the Taiwan Provincial Government in July 1999 after its downsizing. On 1 January 2002, the Committee was supervised by the Academia Historica and renamed Taiwan Historica of Academia Historica.