Robert Middlekauff

Robert Lawrence Middlekauff (July 5, 1929 – March 10, 2021) was a professor of colonial and early United States history at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1]

Career

In 1983, Middlekauff became the President of Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, until 1987.^[2] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984.^[3] In 1987, Middlekauff became a professor at UC Berkeley.^[4]

Middlekauff is best known for The Glorious Cause, a history of the American Revolutionary War, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.^[5] He was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1996–97. In 1997, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997.^[6]

Personal life

He was born in Yakima, Washington.^[5] Middlekauff died at the age of 91 from complications of a stroke on March 10, 2021, in Pleasanton, California.^[5][7]

See also

• Historiography of the United States

Bibliography

• Ancients and Axioms: Secondary Education in Eighteenth-Century New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963).
• The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728, winner of the Bancroft Prize. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971) reprinted in paperback (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
• The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, paperback ed., 1986) (Revised and Expanded Edition, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-516247-9).
• Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996; paperback ed., 1998).

References

1. "Robert L. Middlekauff". history.berkeley.edu. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
2. "Expanding the Fellowship". huntington.org. April 19, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
3. "Robert Lawrence Middlekauff". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
4. "Skotheim to Direct Huntington Complex". Los Angeles Times. January 30, 1988. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
5. Dixler, Elsa (September 1, 2021). "Robert Middlekauff, Historian of Washington and His War, Dies at 91". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
6. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
7. Pokotylo, Katia (April 9, 2021). "Robert Middlekauff, professor emeritus of American history, dies at age 91". The Daily Californian. Retrieved April 25, 2021.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN