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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.

The media coverage was really an insult and embarrassment to New Orleans. \r\n\r\n\"This is a building in downtown New Orleans that had it\'s window\'s busted out by the storm\"\r\n\r\nThat building is in METAIRIE, not New Orleans

Citation

“[Untitled],” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed April 27, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/4312.

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