Originally, Mount Rushmore was supposed to depict heroes of the Wild West. In the end, the sculptor settled for four American ...

High in the Black Hills of South Dakota, colossal faces stare out across the ages—silent, majestic, and controversial. The ...

Mount Rushmore stands as one of America’s most iconic yet controversial monuments. Rising from the ancient granite of the ...

Mount Rushmore has not looked so good in more than ... to have work—two pieces—purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York) still yearned for a project that would earn him immortality.

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 ...