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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 (24 total)

\r\nGreta\'s evacuation story reveals how complicated the decision whether or not to leave the city in advance of a hurricane can be for New Orleanians. Greta\'s sense of responsibility towards her mother, who refused to…

NWT-Greta\'s…

\r\n\r\nEnroute to Greta\'s childhood home, the bus tour heads away from the river and into the far more devastated area of the Lower Ninth Ward. Along the way, the tour passes what was once one of the most important…

NWT-Greta\'s…

Inmate Evacuation

It is a year in pictures from one New Orleanian who\'s gone full-circle after the hurricane. It shows how one person has gone full circle from 8/28/05 through 8/29/06. \r\n\r\nThe music in the background sets the entire…

Evacuating Hurricane…