(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 ...

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of our national birth certificate and mission statement, half my columns this year will be about the great American adventure. National symbols are objects or ideas ...

In “Biography of a Mountain,” author Matthew Davis deftly weaves together interviews and stories that reveal so much more than a linear narrative of the monument’s history.

Is Mount Rushmore National Memorial worth visiting? Yes! Make sure to see the evening program with the short film titled "Freedom, America's Lasting Legacy". Before the program even starts, you are ...