Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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.

Portrait & Narrative

Collection

Post-Katrina Portraits, Francesco

Charcoal portrait of young African American man who volunteered with Common Ground. In text he describes walking through the Ninth Ward to distribute CG newspaper, seeing desolate landscape but people with strength.