Gates Of Hell Research Articles

Editorial Comment: Neoliberal and Other Scandals

Editorial Comment:Neoliberal and Other Scandals Ric Knowles Editorial introductions to general issues always seem to me a bit like those creative writing exercises in which students are given a list of disparate items and asked to make a coherent story out of them. Many of the items involved in the current exercise, of course, are very serious, and I have no wish to trivialize them. The list includes: the inner parlors of seventeenth-century Venetian convents and the gates of hell (no problem linking them); the rights and rules of standup comedy (one could probably fit those in as well); a musical and a video game about Japanese American internment (offering both more difficulty and more seriousness); horizontalist performance in reconstruction Buenos Aires; and, perhaps most shockingly, the bodies of suicidal workers caught in nets at the Foxconn electronic factories in China. But the issue opens promisingly with “This is a story . . .,” and perhaps what holds the story of this issue together is scandal. The story that Shannon Steen introduces at the outset of the issue, “Neoliberal Scandals: Foxconn, Mike Daisey, and the Turn Toward Nonfiction Drama,” indeed tells disturbingly of two scandals, one involving the 2010 worker suicides at Foxconn (supplier to Apple and other electronics giants) and the other the fabrication of facts related to the working conditions that caused those suicides by Mike Daisey in his “nonfiction” play, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, together with Daisey’s forced performance of confession on Ira Glass’s television show, This American Life. Steen’s goal is to demonstrate the ways in which these two performative scandals are linked to, and illuminate, contemporary neoliberal systems of governmentality. What her essay proceeds to offer is an acute exploration of what she calls “four distinct modes of neoliberalism’s theatrical life”: its use of the performative as a mode of seduction, as exemplified by Apple’s “think different” advertising campaign (“Act innovatively! Act independently”); new and extreme forms of protest required by its emergence (“suicide as protest performance”); the role of scandal in shoring up its domain of expression (“the disruption of truth and fiction”); and “its surprising manifestation in nonfiction theatrical forms created with the goal of its critical evaluation.” What she convincingly argues is that “[p]erformance . . . does not merely exist alongside neoliberalism, but it forms a core repertoire through which neoliberalism is activated and moves from ideological project to material reality.” Christine Scippa Bhasin’s “Prostitutes, Nuns, Actresses: Breaking the Convent Wall in Seventeenth-Century Venice” deals with different sorts of scandal in a different time period altogether. Bhasin writes about the scandalous and technically banned public, often secular performances by prostitutes-turned-nuns in Republican Venice. The actors in these performances had been equally scandalously abandoned by their consorts and confined, along with the “excess daughters” of aristocratic families, to nunneries, which included the “Convertite,” an Augustinian monastery founded in 1530 where “repentant prostitutes” took mandatory vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. As Bhasin notes, her story complicates “received notions of the actress-as-prostitute through the historical reality of prostitutes turned nuns-as-actresses.” The nuns played roles ranging from virgin martyrs to “fallen women” in plays written by the major (male) playwrights of the day, they cross-dressed (at a time when their professional counterpoints could not), and they performed before both men and women, including upper-class patrons and foreign visitors who were seasoned theatregoers. They themselves occasionally “escaped the cloister” to attend the professional theatre elsewhere, and they hosted professional performers in their own parlors. Bhasin’s essay tracks some of these activities, but it also provides, for the first time, evidence of some of the plays performed by these nuns: sacred plays, comedies, tragedies, morality plays, and musicals by the likes of Luigi Grotto, Francesco Coli, Fabio Glissenti, and Giacinto Andrea Cicognini that often reflected, sometimes ironically, on the prostitutes-turned-nuns’ own positions and lives. Bhasin also argues convincingly for the use of the [End Page ix] convents’ inner parlors as performance spaces, with spectators gazing at them from the outer parlors through their grated windows (recalling both the typical theatrical staging of the plays of Plautus and...

New Trends in Protein Nanocrystallography Based On LB Nanotemplate, Cell Free Expression, SNAP APA and Montecarlo: A Review

A review of the emerging trends and perspectives of Protein Nanocrystallography is here presented at the intersection of advances in nanotechnology (Langmuir-Blodgett and Anodic Porous Allumina), proteomics (microarray, cell free expression and SNAP) and synchrotron radiation (third generation sources trillion times more brilliant requiring quite smaller crystals and Montecarlo simulation). It should be noted that nanocrystallography here does not refer to crystals of nanometer size or to nanodrop crystallization technology, but to the significant applications for medicine emerging in our labs at the interface of Langmuir-Blodgett engineering, organic chemistry, molecular dynamics and label-free Protein Arrays, utilizing bacterial hell's gate globin, octapus rodhopsin, bovine cytochrome, human kinase, laccase and many other proteins.

Art Music by Caribbean Composers: Antigua and Barbuda

The steel pan was introduced from Trinidad in 1945 and quickly gained popularity (De Jong, 2005). The first steel band in the Caribbean, the Hell's Gate Steel Orchestra, was formed in the late 1940's and is still a force in the Antiguan steel pan scene (De Jong, 2005). More steel bands quickly arose and “the steel pan became the center of cultural life on Antigua and Barbuda” (De Jong, 2005, para. 3).

A Hysterical Reading of Rodin'sGates of Hell

This paper offers a new reading of Auguste Rodin's most important sculpture, the Gates of Hell, by arguing that the artist engaged with the visual language of and the wider discourse on hysteria, which permeated not only the French popular and scientific press but also the culture at large in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Recently uncovered archival evidence reveals Rodin's strong ties to the familiy and intellectual circle of Doctor Jean-Martin Charcot of the Hospital de la Salpetriere, affording the sculptor exceptional exposure and access to the medical discourse on hysteria. Rodin assimilated and adapted the lexicon of hysterical postures for the figures that populate the Gates of Hell, using the great malady of the century to suggest the modern human condition and thereby creating a new and potent sculptural idiom that we recognize today as idiosyncratic of Rodin -and distinctly modern.

Molecular dynamics study of hell’s gate globin I (HGbI) from a methanotrophic extremophile: oxygen migration through a large cavity

Hell's gate globin I (HGbI), a heme-containing protein from the extremophile Methylacidiphilum infernorum, has fast oxygen-binding/slow release characteristics due to its distal residues Gln and Tyr. The combination of Gln/Tyr distal iron coordination, adaptation to extreme environmental conditions, and lack of a D helix suggests that ligand migration in HGbI differs from other previously studied globins. Locally enhanced molecular dynamics trajectories of oxygen migration indicate a large internal cavity. This may increase the tendency of oxygen to exit from portals other than the most direct exit from the space near the heme. Oxygen may reside transiently in shallow surface depressions around the exits. Such surface trapping may enhance both oxygen uptake by increasing contact time between molecules, and decrease release by increasing the probability of oxygen reentry from the vicinity of the portal.

Hierarchical patterns of population structure in the endangered Fraser River white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) and implications for conservation

The Fraser River system consists of five white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) management units, two of which are listed as endangered populations under Canada’s Species at Risk Act. The delineation of these management units was based primarily on population genetic analysis with samples parsed by collection location. We used polysomic microsatellite markers to examine population structure in the Fraser River system with samples parsed by collection location and with a genetic clustering algorithm. Strong levels of genetic divergence were revealed above and below Hells Gate, a narrowing of the Fraser canyon further obstructed by a rockslide in 1913. Additional analyses revealed population substructure on the Fraser River above Hells Gate. The Middle Fraser River (SG-3) and Nechako River were found to be distinct populations, while the Upper Fraser River, although currently listed as an endangered population, represented a mixing area for white sturgeon originating from SG-3 and Nechako. Differences between these results and previous genetic investigations may be attributed to the detection of population mixing when genetic clustering is used to infer population structure.

Incidental Observations of Birds in the Vicinity of Hell Gate Polynya, Nunavut: Species, Timing, and Diversity

Our knowledge of the distribution of Arctic birds and how their ranges may be responding to environmental changes in the Canadian Arctic is limited. We gathered five years of species observation data from three sites in the Hell Gate – Cardigan Strait Polynya (Cape Vera, St. Helena Island, and Devil Island) to create an inventory of avian species observed in the polynya, and we compared it to previous observations made at our sites and other sites throughout the Arctic. We examined species diversity measurements over time to suggest possible effects of the polynya on the timing of spring arrival of breeding and migrant species. Of the 39 species observed during our study, 12 were local breeders. Our records provide the northernmost observations for eight species. Species diversity index values at St. Helena Island peaked quickly in mid-June and stabilized by late June, reflecting the arrival and dispersal of migrating species relatively early in the season. These data highlight the importance of the open-water feeding habitat of the polynya not only for breeding birds, but also for migrants.

Oxygen‐bound hell's gate globin I by classical versus LB nanotemplate method

X-ray atomic structure of recombinant Hell's gate globin I (HGbI) from Methylacidophilum infernorum was calculated from the X-ray diffraction data of two different types of crystals: obtained by classical hanging drop and by LB nanotemplate method under the same crystallization conditions. After the accurate comparison of crystallographic parameters and electron density maps of two structures they appears to be quite similar, while the quality of the crystals grown by LB nanotemplate method was higher then of those grown by classical method. Indeed, the resolution of the LB crystal structure was 1.65 Å, while classical crystals showed only 3.2 Å resolution. Moreover, the reproducibility of this result in the case of LB crystals was much better-nine crystals from 10 gave the same structural results, while only two of 10 classical crystals were appropriate for the X-ray structure resolution.

Beyond Jidai-geki: Daiei studios and the study of transnational Japanese cinema

ABSTRACTThis article looks at the strategies used by Daiei studios for increasing their share of the international film market during the 1950s and 1960s. Rather than relying on the ‘exoticism’ of Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950) or Gate of Hell (Kinugasa, 1953), Daiei instead had ambitions for a wide variety of productions, few of which were actually jidai-geki. In addition to importing the latest technology, Daiei, under studio head Nagata Masaichi, also attempted to foster mutually beneficial relationships with a range of overseas film companies. From a methodological perspective I argue that it is useful to focus on a specific studio in order to think about individual companies' approaches to domestic and international markets and their power relations with international collaborators.

Does the death rate of Hong Kong Chinese change during the lunar ghost month?

BackgroundMost cultures believe in ghosts and for the Chinese, the seventh lunar month—the ghost month—causes particular concern. ‘The gates of hell’ are open for the first 14 days of the...

Fatty Acids of Chthonomonas calidirosea, of a Novel Class Chthonomonadetes from a Recently Described Phylum Armatimonadetes

A Gram-negative, aerobic, pink-pigmented, rod-shaped bacterium Chthonomonas calidirosea (strain T49(T)) with an optimal temperature for growth of 68°C, isolated from soil samples from Hell's Gate in the Tikitere geothermal system (New Zealand), was the first cultivated bacterium of the novel phylum Armatimonadetes (formerly candidate division OP10). The lipid composition of C. calidirosea presents a number of unusual features both in the fatty acids and polar lipids. This contribution reports on the fatty acid profile of C. calidirosea. Transmethylation of bacterial biomass yielded fatty acid methyl esters and hydrocarbons, including squalene, partially hydrogenated squalenes, and diploptene. The only type of unsaturation found in C. calidirosea fatty acids was cis-Δ5, as revealed by GCMS of dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) adducts, and the lack of trans-unsaturation absorbance at 960-980cm(-1) in the IR spectrum of fatty acids methyl esters. An unidentified component X with ECL 16.86 (BP1) and ECL 17.27 (BP20) was also observed, with molecular ion at m/z 282 ("17:1"). X did not form DMDS adducts, nor was affected by mild hydrogenation conditions, indicating the likely presence of a ring rather than unsaturation. The presence of a cyclopropane ring with cis-stereochemistry was confirmed by the (1)H-NMR spectrum. Hydrogenation of X in acetic acid resulted in formation of straight chain 17:0, 5-methyl- and 6-methyl-16:0 fatty acid methyl esters, thus confirming the structure of a novel 5,6-methylene hexadecanoic acid. The major fatty acids of a solid media-grown C. calidirosea were as follows (in weight % of total fatty acids): 16:0 (25.8), i17:0 (19.3), ai17:0 (13.5), 16:1∆5 (8.8), i17:1∆5 (6.8), 5,6-methylene 16:0 (5.2), i16:0 (4.4), 18:0 (3.6), 18:1∆5 (3.2).

Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves & Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849–1925 (review)

Reviewed by: Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves & Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849–1925 Daniel Marshall and Michael Blackwell Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves & Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849–1925. Douglas C. Harris. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008. Pp. 256, $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper In Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves & Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849–1925, Douglas C. Harris provides a substantial and much-needed contribution to the historical literature concerning the alienation of Aboriginal rights and title. Having previously explored the legal-historical context behind the regulation of Native fishing rights (Fish, Law and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia, [2001]), Harris now turns his attention to the importance of Native fisheries during the strategic allotment of Indian reservations. When placed together, these two studies demonstrate how European notions of land ownership alienated Aboriginal title while the common law doctrine of the public right to fish detached Native people from [End Page 773] their Aboriginal right to harvest bc's rivers, their main source of both culture and subsistence. In 1876–8, the Joint Indian Reserve Commission attempted to establish a reservation system that confirmed exclusive access to Native fisheries, the keystone of earlier colonial reservation policy prior to the province's Confederation with Canada. Subsequently, in response to the rapid expansion of the Pacific salmon canning industry, the federal Department of Fisheries began to take an increased role in regulating the resource, rejecting Commissioner Peter O'Reilly's allotment of 'exclusive fisheries' for Indigenous peoples, and thus further marginalizing their traditional rights to 'fish as formerly.' Department officials argued that the reservation policy violated the common law doctrine of the public right to fish. Theoretically, this common law right applied only to tidal waters, and there appeared to be no substantiated precedent for the department's opposition to exclusive riparian rights in non-navigable rivers and streams. Nevertheless, what evolved was a regulatory-legal regime that marginalized Native fishing to a subsistence food-fishery, thus abolishing the Native right to sell fish. By 1910, this food-fishery was further restricted, applying only to those incapable of participating in the wage labour market. The result was that Aboriginal rights – particularly access to fisheries – devolved from an exclusive right into an uncertain privilege. Critics have argued that, despite a limited Indian food-fishery, Indigenous peoples were able to fish on a status equal to the non-Native population through commercial licences. However, Harris persuasively demonstrates that the Fisheries Department ultimately privileged non-Native fishers when granting exclusive-access licences, in addition to the restriction of seine-netting along the Pacific coast. The department's discriminatory policy became evident during the McKenna-McBride Royal Commission, 1913–16, which recommended a separate inquiry into 'the fish question' in response to wide-scale Native protest and discontent. Further to this argument, as both a defence and a criticism of Harris, should be added the role of mining, logging, and railway construction in the dispossession of Aboriginal rights. The Fraser River gold rush of 1858 took place on the same sites where Natives customarily harvested salmon, while mining dregs destroyed spawning grounds. Further, the threat to the Indian food-fishery was compounded by dams constructed on rivers throughout the province to aid log transportation. This included a dam built on Adams River in 1908 that nearly destroyed what is today one of the largest salmon runs in the world. When logging dams failed to block the salmon, [End Page 774] rock slides at Hell's Gate from 1913 to 1914 – the consequence of railway construction – decimated the resource. Taking into account a second factor – the cultural importance of salmon – could have strengthened the book by demonstrating the broader implications of fisheries regulations, as opposed to simply analyzing their legal and economic impact. Native fisheries were profoundly distinct and fundamental to the complex relationship between inter-tribal trade, warfare, and social organization. The inclusion of such factors would have provided a legal-cultural argument capable of conveying to the broader public the sheer importance of salmon to the ceremonial and traditional life-ways of Indigenous populations. At the same time, Harris should be congratulated for this informative and fundamental...

The gates of hell: Sir John Franklin's tragic quest for the North West Passage

The gates of hell: Sir John Franklin's tragic quest for the North West Passage

Mythematics: solving the twelve labors of Hercules

Mythematics: solving the twelve labors of Hercules

<em>The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage</em>, by Andrew Lambert

<em>The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage</em>, by Andrew Lambert

Fish community structure of the St Lucia Estuarine System under prolonged drought conditions and its potential for recovery after mouth breaching

The St Lucia Estuarine System, South Africa, has been under pressure due to recent drought conditions, which have led to closure of the mouth, extremely low lake levels and hypersaline conditions. The estuary mouth closed in June 2002 and remained so for almost 5 years before being breached by Cyclone Gamede in May 2007. After mouth closure in August 2007, salinities in South and North Lake gradually increased to reach highs of 68 at the end of 2008, while salinities in the Narrows gradually declined during the study. Fish were sampled biannually during 2006–2008 with seine and gill-nets at six sites throughout the system. A total of 20,422 fish from 72 species were recorded, with the number of species and CPUE gradually decreasing from the Narrows throughout the system to Hells Gate in the upper parts of the system. The fish community was dominated by the freshwater species Oreochromis mossambicus, and two estuarine species, Ambassis ambassis and Hyporamphus capensis. The fish community was dominated in terms of species numbers by marine spawning species, but in terms of fish abundance by freshwater and estuarine breeding species. Recruitment of post-larvae of 20 marine species into the system occurred following opening of the mouth in March 2007, highlighting the importance of the system as a nursery area for marine species. The fish community was structured by spatial differences between sampling areas and between the three main compartments of the system, and not by temporal changes during the study period.

Diet of black guillemots and northern fulmars breeding beside a High Arctic polynya

In the Arctic, the availability of early-season open water (shore leads, polynyas) is a key factor influencing annual reproduction by marine birds, as these relatively productive locations provide the only sites where migrating and breeding birds can feed. We examined the diet of two marine birds, black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) and northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis), feeding in the Hell Gate–Cardigan Strait Polynya in the Canadian High Arctic during the breeding seasons of 1980–1984. There was little overlap in prey items consumed between these two species, except that both relied on similar sympagic amphipods. Guillemots fed principally on benthic prey, and compared to earlier High Arctic studies, they consumed proportionally more benthic fish, mysids and decapods. Fulmars appeared to feed on swarms of pelagic or surface prey, and in this polynya they consumed proportionally fewer fish and more polychaetes than has been reported for fulmars at other High Arctic locations. Given that climate change may alter marine food webs by changing the types and availability of prey, our results set a baseline of dietary information for these predators against which future conditions can be compared.

Is fishing selective for physiological and energetic characteristics in migratory adult sockeye salmon?

There is extensive evidence that fishing is often selective for specific phenotypic characteristics, and that selective harvest can thus result in genotypic change. To date, however, there are no studies that evaluate whether fishing is selective for certain physiological or energetic characteristics that may influence fish behaviour and thus vulnerability to capture. Here, adult sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) were used as a model to test the null hypothesis that fishing is not selective for specific physiological or energetic traits. Fish were intercepted during their spawning migrations, implanted with a gastric radio transmitter, and biopsied (i.e., non-lethally sampled for blood, gill tissue and quantification of energetic status). In both 2003 and 2006, we tagged and biopsied 301 and 770 sockeye salmon, respectively, in the marine environment en route to their natal river system to spawn. In 2006 an additional 378 individuals were tagged and biopsied in freshwater. We found that 23 (7.6%) of the marine fish tagged in 2003, 78 (10.1%) of the marine fish tagged in 2006 and 57 (15.1%) of the freshwater fish tagged in 2006 were harvested by one of three fisheries sectors that operate in the coastal marine environment and the Fraser River (i.e. commercial, recreational or First Nations fisheries between the site of release and Hell's Gate in the Fraser River, approximately 250 km upriver and 465 km from the ocean tagging site). However, fisheries were not open continually or consistently in different locations and for different fisheries sectors necessitating a paired analytical approach. As such, for statistical analyses we paired individual fish that were harvested with another fish of the same genetic stock that was released on the same date and exhibited similar migration behaviour, except that they successfully evaded capture and reached natal spawning grounds. Using two-tailed Wilcoxon matched pairs signed-rank tests, we revealed that the physiological and energetic characteristics of harvested fish did not differ from those of the successful migrants despite evaluating a number of biochemical (e.g. plasma metabolites, cortisol, plasma ions, gill Na+/K+-ATPase) and energetic (e.g. gross somatic energy density) variables (P's all >0.10). However, for some analyses we suffered low statistical power and the study design had several shortcomings that could have made detection of differences difficult. We suggest that additional research explore the concept of fishing-induced selection for physiological characteristics because physiology is closely linked to three traits where fisheries-induced selection does occur (i.e. life-history, behaviour and morphology).

Victory was Beyond Their Grasp: With the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Hürtgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich (review)

Reviewed by: Victory was Beyond Their Grasp: With the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Hürtgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich Steven R. Parker Victory was Beyond Their Grasp: With the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Hürtgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich. By Douglas E. Nash. Bedford, Penn.: Aberjona Press, 2008. ISBN 0-9777563-2-7. Guide to tactical symbols. Maps. Illustrations. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xxxviii, 373. $24.95. In 1993 an American dealer in military documents journeyed to a small town in eastern Germany to purchase a collection of German military identity papers. Included in her purchase was a battered suitcase which, upon inspection, contained the almost complete files and documents for Füsilier Company 272 of the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division, covering in detail the time from the unit's formation in September 1944 through its dissolution at the end of World War II. Fortunately [End Page 1004] for historians, the documents ended up in the possession of Douglas Nash, author of Hell's Gate: The Battle of the Cherkassy Pocket, January–February 1944. Nash used this treasure trove, along with other primary and secondary sources, as well as interviews with German and American veterans, to write a detailed and thorough history of this relatively unknown German division. Although it was in existence for less than a year, the division participated in several critical battles on the Western Front. Formed from the remnants of the 272nd Infanterie-Division that survived the intense fighting of the Normandy Campaign, the newly christened 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division had only six weeks of training before being deployed in the infamous Hürtgen Forest at the end of October, 1944. There it performed the critical mission of not only holding the current defensive positions, but also preventing the Americans from discovering the buildup of German troops in preparation for the Battle of the Bulge offensive. The division was successful in keeping American attacks in check, but at such a cost that it was judged too weak to participate in the ensuing offensive. After the failure of the Ardennes campaign, the division remained on the defensive along the Westwall, effectively delaying the Americans from capturing the Roer Dams for several weeks. Once pushed back across the Roer River, and suffering significantly from lack of supplies and support, the division endured a series of retreats, first to the Rhine, then to the Wied River, and finally most of the division was disbanded after being surrounded in the Ruhr Pocket. A few units managed to escape encirclement and make their way to the Harz Mountains before finally surrendering in late April, 1945. The amount of detail that Nash has been able to document is often quite remarkable, especially since during the last days of the Reich military records were often either nonexistent or deliberately destroyed. While ostensibly a divisional history, the narrative often describes events on a regimental, battalion, and even company level, often down to individual actions. Aiding the reader's understanding, Nash includes an excellent chapter discussing the organization and purpose of Volks-Grenadier Divisions. Often confused with Volkssturm units, which were usually made up of very young and very old conscripts, Volks-Grenadier Divisions were considered to be elite formations, often commanded by highly decorated officers. In the 272nd alone there were seven Knight's Cross holders, as well as eighteen soldiers decorated with the German Cross in Gold. The maps included in the book are very useful, although a few additional maps detailing the movements of the division's regiments and battalions would have been helpful, as the division often did not fight as a cohesive unit. The appendixes provide a detailed Order of Battle as well as well as a very helpful explanation of the numbering system used for creating the Volks-Grenadier divisions. Thanks to the efforts of an unknown German soldier in keeping the documents of his unit safe for almost forty years after the end of the war, Nash has written an excellent and highly readable history of an unheralded German division, and he has contributed significantly to our understanding of the final months of the Third Reich...

Hell Gate of the Mississippi: The Effie Afton Trial and Abraham Lincoln's Role in It

Review of: Hell Gate of the Mississippi: The Effie Afton Trial and Abraham Lincoln's Role in It, by Larry A. Riney.