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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.

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I HELPED THIS GIRL AT MY SCHOOL BY BEGIN HER FRIEND BECAUSE ONONE WAS HER FRIEND BACAUSE SHE WAS THE HURRUCANE AND I CHEER HER UP BECAUSE SHE DOESN\'T HAVE A MOM\r\n

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I remember as if it was just yesterday, when I first heard of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico heading towards Louisiana on Friday night of August 26, 2005. My husband, our 3 year old daughter and I had just…

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I was set up to start moving in with a new roomate and into a new apartment. I forwent this to not loose my parent\'s support of my education at University of New Orleans. I so much, as a documentary and street…

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I got on campus today at 6 a.m. because I was worried that I wouldn\'t find a parking spot. Turns out I erred on the side of excess, but I would rather that than not be able to find a spot & be late to the mandatory…

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These displaced students have lost nearly everything.\r\n\r\nHome. Personal possession. Trinkets from childhood. Cars. Clothes. Jobs. Dorm rooms. \r\n\r\nNearly everything.\r\n\r\nA few of the people in the Manship…

Kaye\'s Hurricane…

There is only 1 thing people are talking about today on campus. The flavor of the conversation will take different turns - but we\'re all talking about the same thing.\r\n\r\nI started my morning by talking to a…

Kaye\'s Hurricane…

In coming back from lunch with a colleague today, we started talking about the economic impact on the state. I didn\'t realize this, but she said 5 pennies of every dollar spent in New Orleans came back to Baton Rouge -…

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