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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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The history of flooding in New Orleans reveals some fascinating, comforting and unsettling stories. How come I\'ve never heard these stories before? On a visit to the Historic New Orleans Collection, I met with the…

Deep Water Dates,…

Courtney Egan has created multimedia works with bottlecaps, cigarette butts, and bras, but now she spends inordinate amounts of time in front of a computer. Her video collages have shown in galleries and at festivals in…

Courtney Egan,…

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