Michael J. Neufeld

Dr. Michael J. Neufeld is a historian and author. He chaired the Space History Division at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum from 2007 to 2011, and continues to be a curator there.[1]

Biography

Neufeld was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1951.[2] He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Calgary and an M.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1976 with a thesis entitled "He who will not work, neither shall he eat: German social democratic attitudes to labor, 1890-1914".[3] He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1984 with a dissertation on "From artisans to workers: the transformation of the skilled metalworkers of Nuremberg, 1835-1905".[4]

Books

Books written
  • The Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg: Craft and Class in the Industrial Revolution. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 1989
  • The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York : Free Press, 1995. According to WorldCat, the book is in 749 libraries.[5] The book won the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics's History Manuscript Award, and the Society for the History of Technology's Dexter Prize.[6]
    • Translated into German by Jens Wagner as Die Rakete und das Reich : Wernher von Braun, Peenemünde und der Beginn des Raketenzeitalters. ISBN 9783894881177[7]
    • Review by Kees Gispen, Central European History. 31, no. 4, (1998): 474
  • Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. New York : A.A. Knopf, 2007. According to WorldCat, the book is in 1091 libraries.[8] The book won the Organization of American Historians's Leopold Prize, and the American Astronautical Society's Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature.[6]
    • Translated into German as Wernher von Braun: Visionär des Weltraums, Ingenieur des Krieges
    • Translated into Danish as Wernher von Braun: krigsingeniør og rumfartsvisionær
    • Translated into Polish as Von Braun: [inżynier nazistów i Amerykanów]

Books edited
  • with Yves Béon. (eds.) Planet Dora: a memoir of the Holocaust and the birth of the space age. Boulder, Colo.: WestviewPress, 1997.
  • with Michael Berenbaum. (eds.) The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It? New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
    • Review by Edward L. Homze. The Journal of Military History. 65, no. 3, (2001): 846
    • Review by Willard Allen Fletcher. Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 15, no. 3, (2001): 503
  • with Alex M. Spencer. (eds.) Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography. Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 2010.
  • Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013.
  • Milestones of Space: Eleven Iconic Objects from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Minneapolis, Minn.: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in association with Zenith Press, 2014.

References
  1. Biography at the Smithsonian "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-04-24. Retrieved 2013-01-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. LC Authority file
  3. WorldCat
  4. WorldCat
  5. WorldCat
  6. Official biography at the Smithsonian Archived 2013-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
  7. WorldCat
  8. WorldCat
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