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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 (54 total)

We weren\'t going to leave.\r\nWell, I wanted to. But my husband was one of those I-was-here-for-Betsy-and-I\'m-not-leaving types. Of course in Betsy he was 11, he lived near the river and didn\'t flood, and his dad was…

My family is a large one. Dad, Mom, five kids, and Rambo, our yellow lab.\r\n\r\nAugust 27, 2005, was just another Saturday. My sister, mom, and I were at a ladies\' tea. My brothers and dad were probably chillin\' on…

My family is a large one. Dad, Mom, five kids, and Rambo, our yellow lab.\r\n\r\nAugust 27, 2005, was just another Saturday. My sister, mom, and I were at a ladies\' tea. My brothers and dad were probably chillin\' on…

WHERE\'S MY GOD DAMNED GAMEBOY and OTHER STORIES\r\nBy Jared Gore\r\n\r\nPROLOGUE\r\n I really don\'t know where to start with all this...while Hurricane Katrina did bring disruption and destruction into my life it…

Closeup of Salvaged…

Photograph of Miss…