KKK anti-Catholic sentiment resulted in the murder of Father Arthur Belknap of Lead. Idealized Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore, operated as a white supremacist and KKK leader. In 1925, ...

The Mount Rushmore carving of Abraham Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, was officially dedicated on this day in history, ...

There are few national landmarks as iconic as Mount Rushmore, the massive granite sculpture in Keystone, South Dakota ...

The proposal was granted federal funding, and Robinson selected architect and sculptor Gutzon Borglum to design and carve the monument. Borglum convinced Robinson that sculptures of presidents ...

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum selected these presidents for their pivotal roles in American history: Washington for founding the nation, Jefferson for westward expansion, Lincoln for preserving the ...

However, the main sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, pushed to include only the faces of four U.S. presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. But there’s ...