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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.

100_0712

Group of people standing in a gravel lot beside a fenced area with parked bicycles, with vehicles, traffic cones, and buildings in the background under an overcast sky.

empty parking lot outside of Plan B that the owner of the building graciously allowed us to store hundreds of bikes in

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bikes not bombs
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new orleans community bike project
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plan b

Citation

“100_0712,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/34970.