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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.

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Are you down for the cause?\r\n\r\nBy Dr. Andre M. Perry, Contributing Columnist\r\nSeptember 24, 2007 \r\n\r\nWhen you first read the about the Jena 6 case, how did you feel? Your emotions probably poured along either…

Are you down for the…

Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer Chris Joseph, who describes his experience in English and Spanish. English text begins: \"I arrived here 2 weeks ago and what I found was not what I thought I would find. The…

Portrait & Narrative…

Charcoal portrait of young African American man who volunteered with Common Ground. In text he describes walking through the Ninth Ward to distribute CG newspaper, seeing desolate landscape but people with strength.

Portrait & Narrative…

\"Riding the Nightmare Express\" is a 23-page typescript of an unpublished memoir of Hurricane Betsy written by Ninth Ward residents Elizabeth Cousins Rogers (1891-1985) and her husband Walter Rogers (1900-1981). Walter…

\"Riding the…

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