Robert Middlekauff

Robert Lawrence Middlekauff (born July 5, 1929 in Yakima , Washington ) is an American historian and professor at the University of California, Berkeley . He deals with the history of America, especially that of the 18th century.

Middlekauff studied at the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in 1952, served in the US Marine Corps in Korea and Japan from 1952 to 1954, and received his doctorate in 1961 from Yale University . He taught in Berkeley from 1982, interrupted by five years (1983 to 1988) as director of the Huntington Library near Pasadena . From 1978 to 1981 and 1997/98 he headed the history faculty in Berkeley. 1974 to 1977 he was Dean of Social Sciences and 1981 to 1983 Provost and Dean of the College of Letters and Science. In 2000 he was retired as Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History.

In 1996/97 he was Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University . In 1987 he was Bullitt Professor at the University of Washington. He was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984 and the American Philosophical Society in 1997 .

Middlekauff is best known as the author of the volume on the American Revolution in the Oxford History of the United States (The Glorious Cause). After his retirement, his interest shifted from American colonial history to the 19th century and Mark Twain .

Fonts

• Ancients and Axioms: Secondary Education in Eighteen-Century New England. Yale University Press, New Haven 1963.
• The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1971, Paperback at the University of California Press, 1999 (received the Bancroft Prize in 1972 ).
• The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford History of the United States, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1982, Paperback 1986.
• Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies. University of California Press, Berkeley 1996.

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