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 http://airandspace.si.edu/staffDetail.cfm?staffID=42
2. LC Authority file
3. WorldCat
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6. Official biography at the Smithsonian
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