Robert Middlekauff
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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] He was born in Yakima, Washington.[2]
In 1983, Middlekauff became the President of Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, until 1987.[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.[2] He was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1996-7. He died at the age of 91 from complications of a stroke on March 10, 2021, in Pleasanton, California.[2][5]
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[]
- ^ "Robert L. Middlekauff". history.berkeley.edu. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Dixler, Elsa (2021-09-01). "Robert Middlekauff, Historian of Washington and His War, Dies at 91". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
- ^ "Expanding the Fellowship". huntington.org. April 19, 2012. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "Skotheim to Direct Huntington Complex". latimes.com. January 30, 1988. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ Pokotylo, Katia (April 9, 2021). "Robert Middlekauff, professor emeritus of American history, dies at age 91". The Daily Californian. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
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- Bancroft Prize winners
- Historians from California
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