Robert Middlekauff

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

Middlekauff studied at the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in 1952, made ​​from 1952 to 1954 his military service with the U.S. Marine Corps in Korea and Japan, and in 1961 received his doctorate at Yale University. He taught from 1982 in Berkeley, interrupted by five years ( 1983-1988 ) as director of the Huntington Library in Pasadena. 1978 to 1981 and 1997/98 he stood in front of the history department at Berkeley. 1974 to 1977 he was Dean of Social Sciences and 1981-1983 Provost and Dean of the College of Letters and Science. In 2000 he was given emeritus status as Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History.

1996/97 he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. In 1987 he was Bullitt Professor at the University of Washington.

Middlekauff is best known as 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.

Writings

• 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 1972 Bancroft Prize ).
• 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.