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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 remember the very first time I actually realized what had happened down in New Orleans. I had heard that there was a hurricane down there but didn\'t think too much about it, \"hurricanes happen all the time\". And my…

In the month leading up to the 2006 mayoral election Ray Nagin visited every high school in the city. Pasted below is the transcript of his speech at Math and Science Charter High School. After the speech\'s transcript…

Transcript of Mayor…

In the month leading up to the 2006 mayoral election Ray Nagin visited every high school in the city. After he spoke to the students at Math and Science High School he answered some more questions from the teacher\'s at…

Audio of New Orleans…

Although i have never been in a disaster of this kind I have had family that has gone through this dreadful situations. When hurricane katrina happened i was actually working for payless shoes source, but in northern va,…

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf shore, I began my freshman year at George Mason University. That year I lived on the Living Learning Community for the School of Management. Students that live on a…

My life has been hard since hurricane Rita. I accepted the housing voucher program from Houston, many promises where made, but along the way those promises changed. Now after one year I am still having trouble getting…

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The word.doc file I am enclosing is a paper I wrote in my fieldworking class at UNO this fall 2006 semester. It was my first assignment as well as theraputical for me.