JAH Roundtable: A Note to Readers on Internationalization of the JAH Foreword Willi Paul Adams and David Thelen The Historian as Translator: An Introduction Willi Paul Adams Individual Creativity and the Filters of Language and Culture: Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation David Thelen French Translations and Reception of the Declaration of Independence Elise Marienstras and Naomi Wulf German Translations of the American Declaration of Indepedence Willi Paul Adams Tradurre/Tradire: The Declaration of Independence in the Italian Context Tiziano Bonazzi The Mexican Declaration of Independence Josefina Zoraida Vázquez Jefferson's Declaration of Independence in the Spanish Political Tradition Joaquim Oltra The Hebrew Translation of the Declaration of Independence S. Ilan Troen The Declaration of Independence in Poland Jerzy Kutnik The Declaration of Independence: A View from Russia Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov The American Declaration of Independence in Russian: The History of Translation and the Translation of History Marina A. Vlasova The Declaration of Independence in Japan: Translation and Transplantation, 1854-1997 Tadashi Aruga East Is East and West Is West: Did the Twain Ever Meet? The Declaration of Independence in China Frank Li Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Linguistic Parity: Multilingual Perspectives on the Declaration of Independence Eugene Eoyang Appendices The Declaration of Independence The Historian as Translator: Initial Proposal