Blame it on Cary Grant. The climactic chase in Hitchcock’s 1959 thriller North by Northwest, in which he and Eva Marie Saint are pursued by foreign spies around the faces of George Washington, Abraham ...

Matthew Davis, author of a Mount Rushmore biography, explains how four presidents ended up on a mountain that was never meant to honor them. When I was driving cross-country about 20 years ago, I ...

Whether it’s the sweeping beauty of South Dakota’s Black Hills, the camaraderie of bringing together road-trippers from across the country or pondering what it took to blast and carve 60-foot-tall ...

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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 ...

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 ...

For several years, online memes have claimed a racist and dark history attached to one of the most iconic U.S. monuments, Mount Rushmore. Its past came under scrutiny amid nationwide protests against ...