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Hurricane Archive

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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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.

Items (9 total)

A report on home health care following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita that was subsequently published in the journal Home Health Care Management and Practice. The author is Stan Weeber, Associate Professor of Sociology at…

Home Health Care…

Author: Stan Weeber, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA\r\n\r\nA report on the difficulties in reinitiating college sociology classes at McNeese State…

Reinitiating…

A brief remembrance of Holly Beach, Louisiana, which was totally destroyed by Hurricane Rita.

Title: Lady Lives at Holly Beach\r\n\r\nAuthor: Stan Weeber, Associate Professor, Sociology, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA\r\n\r\nThis is a non-fiction short story based on real events in and around Holly…

Title: Remembering Cameron Parish\r\n\r\nAuthor: Stan Weeber, Associate Professor, Sociology, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA\r\n\r\nThis is a remembrance of Cameron Parish which was mostly destroyed by…

This paper is titled, \"Remembering Sabine Pass,\" Hurricane Rita\'s ground zero. Ninety percent of the historic town\'s dwellings were damaged by Rita. It is based on my field trip to the town in June, 2006.

This is the narrative story of the 200 New Orleans college students who moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, and only days later were forced to move again due to Hurricane Rita.

Author: Stan C. Weeber\r\n Assistant Professor, Sociology\r\n McNeese State University\r\n Lake Charles, LA\r\n\r\nTitle: After Katrina, The Tears of Diaspora\r\n\r\nDescription:…

Author: Stan C. Weeber\r\n Assistant Professor, Sociology\r\n McNeese State University\r\n Lake Charles, LA\r\n\r\nTitle: Storytelling, Survival and Healing: A Sociological…