The German inventor’s gamble ended in financial disaster, but it changed the world forever.

In ‘This Week in History,’ Japanese officials resend cherry trees to America after narrowly avoiding a political and ecological disaster.

The ‘Merry Affair’ became a diplomatic faux pas when Jefferson instituted a ‘pell-mell’ approach to etiquette.

This installment of ‘When Character Counted’ brings us to Fanny Crosby, a blind lyricist, composer, and poet whose hymns have touched and transformed millions.