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.

Online File Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

To the extent local, state and federal governments failed to meet the challenges presented by Katrina, each has pointed fingers at the others. The song \\\'Get It Right\\\' emphasizes that after all the finger pointing the governments must use the lessons of the past to \\\'get it right next time.\\\'

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“Online File Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed March 31, 2025, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/597.

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Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

Online File Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

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