For several years, online memes have claimed a racist and dark history attached to one of the most iconic U.S. monuments, Mount Rushmore. Its past came under scrutiny amid nationwide protests against ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story of struggle — and to some, desecration. The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived. For ...