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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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Katrina Ate My Sex Toys: From my journal. Written January 2006, 5 months after Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina ate my sex toys. It seemed like a good idea to store them in a fabric-covered hat box beneath my bed. Discreet…

Katrina Ate My Sex…

This story is an excerpt from an email I sent to friends in early December 2005 describing life in post-Katrina New Orleans. It describes the scene at a hair salon, Arthur\'s House of Glamour, in the French Quarter, as…

Storytelling in a…

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