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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.

Black background with the date "8-29-2005" at top, a white fleur-de-lis symbol in the…

Original title

Item 33218

08292005
Hurricane Katrina
Louisiana
New Orleans
disaster
katrina federal flood
we are not ok

Citation

“Black background with the date "8-29-2005" at top, a white fleur-de-lis symbol in the…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/33218.