With his latest film for Alabama Public Television, filmmaker Robert Clem set himself what he regards as his most ambitious challenge: To get his arms around the story of Confederate Adm. Raphael ...

This sweeping account from journalist Burke (The New Threat) charts the emergence of “a new kind of transnational terrorism” in the late 1960s, when loose networks of radicals, Continue reading » ...

"Semmes Takes Command", a reenactment of Admiral Raphael Semmes' assumption of command of the CSS Alabama will be held at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Naval Civil War Naval Museum at ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — One of Mobile’s most well-known figures from the Civil War gets a closer look. A new documentary premiering later this summer will take a deep dive into the exploits of Admiral ...

Confederate Adm. Raphael Semmes, in green-patinaed bronze, sword at his hip, long stood sentry on Mobile's Government Street, the main corridor through Alabama's historic port city. Now all that ...

MOBILE, AL (WALA ) — The statue of Civil War Admiral Raphael Semmes has been removed from its longstanding place in downtown Mobile. The statue was removed overnight, and residents noticed it gone ...

The high-seas Confederate commerce raider that bore the name Tuscaloosa began as an American cargo ship, the Conrad, which in June 1863 was captured in the south Atlantic by the CSS Alabama. Captain ...

The rethinking of place names in light of U.S. racial history has turned to California’s Alabama Hills, a distinctive high-desert formation named for a Confederate warship. The Alabama Hills National ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - LSU will change the name of Raphael Semmes Road which runs in front of the Student Union. The road was named after a Confederate officer. The change is part of a plan to ...

"Adm. Raphael Semmes, CSA, commander of the most successful sea raider in history, the CSS Alabama," reads David Toifel, a member of the Adm. Raphael Semmes Camp #11 of the Sons of Confederate ...