Shortly after the new government ascended to power in May 2008, President Ma Ying-jeou appointed Lin Man-houng, who was a senior research fellow at the Academia Sinica's Institute of Modern History, to the nation's highest post for an historian: the presidency of the Academia Historica.
新政府 2008 年 5 月上台後，總統馬英九旋即任命中央研究院近代史研究所研究員林滿紅，出任我國最高史政機關──國史館──館長。