PBS America (Freeview) Sunday

A veteran steam engine driver gives Peter Ginn a few tips on shovelling coal, and Ruth Goodman finds out about the dangers involved in working on the Victorian railways

How the combination of increased leisure time and affordable rail transport brought a new kind of freedom for working-class Victorians

The Union army's failure to achieve a decisive victory by the spring of 1863, despite possessing greater manpower than the Confederates

The Battle of Gettysburg, when for three days in July 1863 150,000 men fought to the death in the Pennsylvania countryside

The series of battles during 1864 that pitted generals Ulysses S Grant and Robert E Lee against each other, from the Wilderness to Petersburg in Virginia

Martin Smith traces the defining moments for Xi Jinping, how he’s exercising power and the impact on China and relations with the US and the world

Examining Donald Trump's return to political prominence and exploring key moments that defined his path back to the White House through interviews and archival footage