Simon ToppingSimon Topping is Associate Professor of United States History at Plymouth University. He is the author of Lincoln's Lost Legacy: The Republican Party and the African American Vote, 1928-1952 (University Press of Florida, 2008) which wasshort-listed for the 2009 Neustadt prize. He has published a number of articles on the importation of American racism into Northern Ireland during the Second World War. Read More Read Less