Set in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore may be one of the United States’ most recognizable landmarks, but as author Matthew Davis explains in “A Biography of a Mountain – The Making and ...
The Boston Globe: Mount Rushmore: a century of shifting meanings, a symbolic battleground for America
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 ...
Mount Rushmore: a century of shifting meanings, a symbolic battleground for America
NPR: After 100 years of Mount Rushmore, its biographer says the landmark is incomplete
Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the first drilling at Mount Rushmore, the iconic American landmark in South Dakota. But Matthew Davis, author of the new book A Biography of a Mountain, says ...
After 100 years of Mount Rushmore, its biographer says the landmark is incomplete
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 ...
USA Today: Steeped in controversy, Mount Rushmore marks 100th anniversary of its birth
Mount Rushmore is an American icon: Its majestic, 60-foot-tall carved presidential heads, overlooking South Dakota’s Black Hills, have been immortalized in cinema and remain a bucket-list destination ...
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 ...