For over 85 years, DMPL has brought services to the community with the help of outreach vehicles

Everyone in America were riding bicycles in 1896, and the people of Des Moines were no exception.

The 81 acre lot to the west of Des Moines that would become Greenwood Park had begun to be developed as a private park by the original owner, T.E. Brown – believing that the location and the landscape…

The "flood of the century" caused great damage to the city of Des Moines, and no one who lived through it was untouched.

The story of Alfred Lawson's utopian, non-profit university is one of the stranger episodes in the history of the Midwest.