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 ...

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 ...

"The translated and edited journals of a young German barber-surgeon recording his travels across Germany and the Netherlands and time spent on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships sailing to the ...

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