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

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

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

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

• Historiography of the United States

• 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 theBancroft 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).

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