In April 2025, a new meme trend began reshaping Mount Rushmore—literally. Social media users started replacing the stone faces of Mount Rushmore’s U.S. presidents with their personal top four figures ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Nestled in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore is the most visited national monument outside of New York City or Washington, D.C. Photo Credit: South Dakota Department of Tourism In a ...

President Donald Trump has made no secret of his fondness for Mount Rushmore and his desire to join its rock-star lineup. During his first term, Trump told Kristi Noem — then a U.S. representative ...