President Trump’s renewed push to add his face to Mount Rushmore faces overwhelming obstacles. Geologists warn that the ...

The carving of Mount Rushmore represents a dramatic intervention in natural history—humans leaving their mark in the most permanent way possible. Yet, even stone is not forever.

The creator of Mount Rushmore’s forgotten ties to white supremacy Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Ga ...

Mount Rushmore is part of the Black Hills mountain range in South Dakota. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum started work on the monument in 1927 and completed it in 1941.

Borglum soon moved on to Mt. Rushmore, but he always hoped to return to complete Stone Mountain. When Henry Augustus Lukeman was commissioned to replace him at Stone Mountain, Borglum was irate.

But at Mount Rushmore, Borglum mounted a flat-panel protractor on each of the presidents’ heads with a large boom and a plumb bomb dangling from the boom. He had a similar device on a model.

Dedicated 75 years ago this month, Mount Rushmore was intended by its creator, ... When he first glimpsed “the virgin stone” of his canvas, a quartz hump called Stone Mountain, ...

Campaign to remove Confederate Mount Rushmore in Georgia fails but flags will be moved. Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park will keep carvings of Confederate leaders ...

Each year, 2 million tourists visit Mount Rushmore, the mountain sculpture of four U.S. presidents. ... What Mount Rushmore has in common with Stone Mountain and other racist monuments.

While millions admire Mount Rushmore's majestic sculptures, a strange conspiracy theory suggests these presidential faces ...

After Stone Mountain, Gutzon Borglum went on to carve Mount Rushmore. Who was Mr. Rushmore? 04/07/2023 ...

Before the faces of four U.S. presidents were carved into Mount Rushmore, this mountain was called The Six Grandfathers by the Lakota Sioux. Learn more. Crazy Horse Memorial ...