With this plan foiled by needing space for Lincoln's big old head, Borglum intended instead to place a grand room within the ...

Carved from the ageless granite of South Dakota’s Black Hills, Mount Rushmore National Memorial was originally envisioned as a tribute to some of the American West’s legendary heroes. But when famed ...

(Underwood & Underwood / Corbis) In the 1920s, despite the area’s atrocious roads, a fair number of adventurous travelers were visiting South Dakota’s Black Hills. But Doane Robinson, the official ...

Matthew Davis is the author of “A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore,” which will be published in November. One hundred years after its initial dedication, Mount ...

MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, S.D. (WCSC) - Nearly 400 men and women began construction on the Mount Rushmore National Monument on this date 98 years ago. The work on the colossal monument in a ...

Set in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore may be one of the United States’ most recognizable landmarks, but as author Matthew Davis explains in “A Biography of a Mountain – The Making and ...

The four presidential faces that make up Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota have become such a fixture of American visual culture, it’s hard to imagine that the monument might have ...