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Mount Rushmore view detail comment email this

Site provides historical information on the world-famous sculpture of the heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt on South Dakota's Mount Rushmore. Includes a timeline, video clips of sculptor Gutzon Borglum and others working, and suggestions for further reading. Companion site to an episode of the PBS television series The American Experience .
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rushmore/
Topics: Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency

Last updated Jan 22, 2002


Presidential Pathways view detail comment email this

This travel guide visits sites along U.S. scenic byways related to presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Some of the stops include Mt. Rushmore, the Washington Monument, Jefferson College, the inauguration site in New York of Roosevelt, and statues commemorating the Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debate about slavery. From the National Scenic Byways Program of the Federal Highway Administration.
http://www.byways.org/stories/65699
Topics: The United States Presidency

Last updated Feb 5, 2009




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