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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)

Interview with Bruce Ciemniecki, of Franklin, TN, who helped to organize Katrina relief and drove supplies from Tennessee down to the Gulf Coast.

Bruce Ciemniecki…

Oral history of Daniel Maher who evacuated from Louisiana fleeing Hurricane Katrina and enrolled in Middle Tennessee State University.

Maher HK4192K.mp3

Oral history of Corey Lee who evacuated from Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina and enrolled in Middle Tennessee State University.

Lee HK6192K.mp3

Oral history of Patrick Landrum, student at Middle Tennessee State University who grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, reflects on Hurricane Katrina.

Landrum HK5192K.mp3