Ozarks Studies

Creating Community: Jews of Springfield traces the history of Springfield’s Jewish community back to the arrival of the first settlers in the 1860s.

Whether it’s the hillbilly stereotype or the backwoods myth, it’s a fact that there’s plenty of misunderstandings about the Ozarks and Ozarkers.Last week…

Spreading across roughly 40,000-45,000 square miles, the Ozarks covers much of the southern half of Missouri and a large part of northern Arkansas. It…