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Hurricane Archive

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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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 (17 total)

The Katrina Journal, a series of short-takes and observations on facing post-Katrina life in New Orleans head-on, was written from June to December 2006 to, as Gehman puts it, "cry out the silent tears" of loss and…

2006 Journal…

Brad Ott interviewed Mary Gehman in December 2005 regarding her experiences in the aftermath of the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina. The full transcription of the interview is available via the accompanying…

Hurricane Katrina a Year Later: An Epilogue\r\n\r\nThe first couple of paragraphs are included below. The full essay is available in the accompanying file.\r\n\r\nOn August 29, the first year anniversary of Katrina, I…

Hurricane Katrina a…

In \"Six Months Since Hurricane Katrina\" Mary takes us back to New Orleans to pick up the pieces and figure out what to do next. \r\n\r\nhttp://www.margaretmedia.com/katrina/index.htm

Six Months Since…

Broad Street…

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