The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story of struggle — and to some, desecration. The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived. For ...

Since then, Snopes has investigated the histories of a range of monuments across the country, including our previous coverage around Mount Rushmore. In 2025, claims about Mount Rushmore resurfaced on ...

Gutzon Borglum and a superintendent inspecting work on the face of Washington on Mount Rushmore on May 31, 1932 (image public domain via the Library of Congress) On July 4, 2020, weeks after ...

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 ...

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 ...