Robert Middlekauff Explained

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. Middlekauff died at the age of 91 from complications of a stroke on March 10, 2021, in Pleasanton, California.^[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).
• (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, paperback ed., 1986) (Revised and Expanded Edition, 2005,).
• Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996; paperback ed., 1998).

Notes and References

1. Web site: https://history.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/emeritus/robert-l-middlekauff . Robert L. Middlekauff . history.berkeley.edu . August 3, 2020.
2. Web site: https://www.huntington.org/verso/2018/08/expanding-fellowship . Expanding the Fellowship . huntington.org . April 19, 2012 . August 3, 2020.
3. Web site: Robert Lawrence Middlekauff. 2021-12-10. American Academy of Arts & Sciences. en.
4. Web site: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-30-ca-10007-story.html . Skotheim to Direct Huntington Complex . latimes.com . January 30, 1988 . August 3, 2020.
5. News: Dixler . Elsa . 2021-09-01 . Robert Middlekauff, Historian of Washington and His War, Dies at 91 . en-US . The New York Times . 2021-09-02 . 0362-4331.
6. Web site: APS Member History. 2021-12-10. search.amphilsoc.org.
7. News: Pokotylo . Katia . Robert Middlekauff, professor emeritus of American history, dies at age 91 . April 25, 2021 . The Daily Californian . April 9, 2021.