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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...