Robert Middlekauff

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Robert Lawrence Middlekauff (July 5, 1929 – March 10, 2021) was an American historian who specialized in colonial and early United States history. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and from 1983 to 1987 he served as president of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984. After leaving Huntington in 1987, he returned to UC Berkeley as a professor. 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. He held the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship of American History at Oxford in 1996–97 and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997. He was born in Yakima, Washington, and died at age 91 from complications of a stroke on March 10, 2021, in Pleasanton, California.