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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.

We are sitting/standing on the car we moved!

Large group of volunteers wearing dust masks and work gloves pose together atop and around a car on a muddy lot, with one man raising his fist triumphantly.

We are sitting/standing on the car we moved!

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“We are sitting/standing on the car we moved!,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/33269.

We are sitting/standing on the car we moved!

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