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.

“he nonetheless became deeply involved in Klan politics,” John Taliaferro writes in Great White Fathers, his 2002 history of Mount Rushmore. Borglum’s decision to work with the Klan wasn’t ...

The National Park Service has stated that there's no secure surface available on Mount Rushmore for carving a fifth face ...

but he wouldn’t be on the Black Mount Rushmore. Having dinner with Booker T. Washington at the White House ain’t enough. Rather than TR, put Ulysses S. Grant on the Black Mount Rushmore.