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] In 1983, Middlekauff became the President of Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, until 1987.
[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.
[5] He was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1996–97.
[5] Middlekauff died at the age of 91 from complications of a stroke on March 10, 2021, in Pleasanton, California.