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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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On Martin Luther King Day, Monday, January 16, 2006, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin gave the speech which inspired this mix:\r\n\r\nRainwater (Nagin Mix)\r\nWords and Music by Jack Strange\r\nOratory by Mayor Ray…

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This attachment is a Katrina book project created by Dudley Grady, Ashleigh Joplin and Kristopher Chambers of Math and Science Charter High School in the Spring of 2006. The three students completed the book in a New…

Desire: Returning…

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…

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