Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.

Items (5 total)

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April 2007: A federal judge has dismissed a claim that local police violated the right to travel of New Orleans residents trying to get out after Hurricane Katrina.\r\n\r\nFull text available via the link.\r\n

Judge dismissed…

Excerpted from an October 2005, Danville, Kentucky, newspaper interview with a woman who waited near the Algiers Ferry Terminal for more than two days to be evacuated:\r\nBurris, her two children, the couple and their…

Algiers Ferry

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Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

Items (5 total)

April 2007: A federal judge has dismissed a claim that local police violated the right to travel of New Orleans residents trying to get out after Hurricane Katrina.\r\n\r\nFull text available via the link.\r\n

Excerpted from an October 2005, Danville, Kentucky, newspaper interview with a woman who waited near the Algiers Ferry Terminal for more than two days to be evacuated:\r\nBurris, her two children, the couple and their…