(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 ...

As Mount Rushmore turns 100 years old, a new book digs into the sculpture's origins and meanings, which, like America itself, are layered with achievement and fault. Matthew Davis, author of "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 ...

When I was driving cross-country about 20 years ago, I stopped at the Black Hills of South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore. It's quite a sight - the heads of four U.S. presidents, each about 60 feet tall ...

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.

Though there are major Superman villains missing from the movies, the hero’s cinematic tenure has seen a handful of ...

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 ...