TAHS was organized in Southern California, 2013–2014. We keep both dates deliberately: a founding member's memoir records that founding president Charles Yang (楊嘉猷) convened the society in summer 2013 with it formally established by year's end, while a December 2014 letter describes the society as then being organized. The archive holds both sources side by side rather than forcing one year — the same discipline we apply to every entry in Echopedia.
The founders were elders of the Taiwanese American diaspora — engineers, physicians, publishers — who had spent decades building community institutions and wanted the record kept: interviews with pioneers, memorial services, lectures, exhibitions, and published profiles.
The society has published two volumes of 台美人菁英錄 (Taiwanese American Profiles) — collected interviews and biographical essays centered on the first generation — and in 2025 the board adopted a program to collect, interview, and publish second- and third-generation figures. See the 2023 TAHS Publication entry in Echopedia.
Our flagship public offering: a free, bilingual, source-noted wiki of Taiwanese American people, organizations, congregations, and events — 15,000+ entries across people, organizations, works, and sources, each with verification notes. 我們的公開代表作：免費、雙語、附出處與查證註記的台美人人物、組織、教會與事件百科。
Disambiguation. TAHS is not the Taiwan Center (台灣會館), and not the Taiwanese American History Foundation (台美史料中心, taiwaneseamericanhistory.org). The older site tahistory.org is a legacy host of record, not this organization's current site. 台美人歷史協會不是台灣會館，也不是台美史料中心（taiwaneseamericanhistory.org）。舊站 tahistory.org 是歷史網站，不是本會現行網站。