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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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Dining Room Damage

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More flooding

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Neighborhood…

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Neighbor\'s Rescue

This account puts you on a New Orleans overpass for days with hundreds of other stranded evacuees, hot, thirsty, and hungry, with no idea when relief will come. Our companions are thousands of prisoners being moved by…

Surviving Katrina

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