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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Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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Half of my family was from New Orleans; I spent a good deal of time there as I was growing up. I\'d heard the warnings about how someday a hurricane was going to come along and sink the city shaped like a bowl. It just…