(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 ...

(CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, composed of sculptures of the faces of former Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and ...

Journalist Davis (When Things Get Dark) offers a nuanced history of “our most visible piece of Americana,” the 60-foot-tall faces of four presidents carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota.

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George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt — it’s these hallowed faces that make up the actual Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota. Each of these men ...

It has been two weeks since Donald Trump returned to the White House, and despite the chaos he has managed to cause in such a short amount of time, conservatives are already trying to elevate him to ...