Enfilade

Benjamin West, American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Negotiations with Great Britain, 1783–1820, oil on canvas, 72 × 92 cm (Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library).

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The latest issue from J18:

Journal18, Issue #21 (Spring 2026) — Revolutions

Issue edited by Wendy Bellion and Kristel Smentek

Published in alignment with the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence, the three articles and four shorter re-presentations explore the material and visual cultures of this and subsequent eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions: the French Revolution (1789–99), the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), the United Irishmen’s Rebellion (1798), and the Latin American Wars of Independence (1808–26).

a r t i c l e s

Emily C. Casey — Revolution’s Ends: American War, Patriotism, and Culture in a Dilating Eighteenth Century

Matthew Gin — The Revolution’s Sanctuary: Designing the La Réole Temple of Reason, Year II

Monica Anke Hahn — Three-Fingered Jack: Staging Resistance in the Toy Theater

r e – p r e s e n t a t i o n s

Zara Anishanslin — Finding William Lee: A Black Founder in Early American Portraiture

Daniella Berman — Contingent Truths of the French Revolution: Representing the Abolition of Slavery of 1794

Firelei Báez in conversation with J. Cabelle Ahn — ‘My interventions project back what has been erased’

Thomas Crow — Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre with Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror: A Review

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Reflections on a Decade of Journal18

Virtual Event in the HECAA Great Conversations Series

7 May 2026, 9.30am PDT / 12.30pm EDT / 5.30pm BST

Join the Journal18 editorial team for a reflection on the creation and aims of J18 and how it has developed over time, as well as an open-ended discussion about future possibilities. We are excited to come together for conversation about a decade of J18 and to look ahead. Registration is available here.