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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.

Hello my name is T. J. Burns and my story is like some of the thousands out there already, in a few short hours I went from having a home of my own, new car and a pretty good job to having nothing at all. Please never forget August 29,2005, I know I never will

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“[Untitled],” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed May 18, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/31773.

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