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<span style="font-weight: 300;">As part of its 2025-2026 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, OHRAB received funding to offer an archival fellowship. The fellowship will provide a graduate student in public history, library
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<span style="font-weight: 300;">The program will focus on locating, identifying and providing information about manumission records held in the following counties: Athens, Fairfield, Gallia, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Perry and Vinton. The
deadline to apply is </span><b>April 20, 2026</b><span style="font-weight: 300;"> and more information on the fellowship is available here: <a style="margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://ohrab.org/2026-ohrab-archival-fellowship/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA1007ba57-06f8-ccde-9de7-49e268799402" target="_blank" href="https://ohrab.org/2026-ohrab-archival-fellowship/">https://ohrab.org/2026-ohrab-archival-fellowship/</a> .</span></div>
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