Mount Rushmore is an American icon: Its majestic, 60-foot-tall carved presidential heads, overlooking South Dakota’s Black Hills, have been immortalized in cinema and remain a bucket-list destination ...

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of our national birth certificate and mission statement, half my columns this year will be ...

This story has been updated with Tuesday emailed comments from Gov. Rhoden’s office. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A group of lawmakers and Gov. Larry Rhoden are making sure the lights stay on at the ...

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 Land of the Lakota Sioux -- Gutzon Borglum's Mount Rushmore -- George Washington Imagined -- George Washington's Mixed Messages -- Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Monuments -- Thomas Jefferson's ...

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 ...

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 ...