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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.

My old home rebuilt. Notice the neighbor on the right is raised on stilts. The home on the…

A single-story beige house with a small porch and railing, flanked by a raised house on stilts to the right and a vacant lot with debris on the left, under a clear blue sky.

My old home rebuilt. Notice the neighbor on the right is raised on stilts. The home on the left is now gone.

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“My old home rebuilt. Notice the neighbor on the right is raised on stilts. The home on the…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/42091.

My old home rebuilt. Notice the neighbor on the right is raised on stilts. The home on the…

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