A new feature at the State Historical Museum of Iowa in Des Moines debuted this weekend. NaviLens launched on Saturday after two years of planning. More than 500 codes are spread across the museum’s ...

While the future of the Iowa caucuses ... draws on the Historical Museum’s vast store of caucus and political artifacts, as well as photography and front pages from The Des Moines Register ...

You can learn more about the West Des Moines Historical Society ... preservation and the celebration of Iowa's history. The Jordan House, now a museum owned and run by the historical society ...

Learn all about Midwestern rural life at this outdoor history museum ... 4 p.m. It's located in Urbandale, Iowa, about 10 miles northwest of downtown Des Moines. It's best reached by car.

The Texas archeologist just traded prehistoric artifacts for locomotive legacy as the new executive director of the Dickinson County Museum in Spirit Lake. Now, Iowa's first converted railroad depot ...

Super Hornet fighter jets from the USS Harry S. Truman bombed ISIS targets in Somalia in February, a defense official told ...

Des Moines returned to trick-or-treating on Oct. 30 the following year. According to the State Historical Society of Iowa, the plan worked: “By the mid-1940s, the number of Halloween police ...

“You guys are kind of like the cradle of birthing army officers, right there in Des Moines,” North said. The State Historical Society of Iowa approved North’s request for a historical marker ...

The Iowa Goldstar Military Museum at Camp Dodge in Johnston is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Museum curator Mike Vogt says the museum idea came from retired World War Two veteran and ...

The Iowa Falls Historical Society has opened the Heartland Military Museum in downtown Iowa Falls. The new museum will have stories of local veterans who served in numerous wars and conflicts. One ...