Schramsberg got its start as a German barber's dream. In 1862, Jacob Schram purchased 200 acres on Diamond Mountain, just a few miles south of Calistoga, and began growing grapes on a hillside ...

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Historians Craig Koslofsky and Roberto Zaugg, working separately, discovered the 300-year-old journal of a German barber-surgeon involved in the Atlantic slave trade. They joined forces to translate ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The trade that brought enslaved Africans to the New World was not just a story of slave ship captains and their human cargo. Many other people were part of the machinery, drawn by ...