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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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Monday, August 29, 2005 \r\nThis whole town does look like whatever hope becomes after it begins to weary a little, then weary a little more. But hope deferred is still hope. I love this town. I think sometimes of going…

Katrina Blog…

The Katrina Blog Project was an eleven-day memoir which recounted my personal experiences during the days immediately before and after Hurricane Katrina landed in St. Bernard, Louisiana.

Katrina Blog…

The Katrina Blog Project was an eleven-day memoir which recounted my personal experiences during the days immediately before and after Hurricane Katrina landed in St. Bernard, Louisiana. I consider the project…

Katrina Blog…

The Katrina Blog Project was an eleven-day memoir which recounted my personal experiences during the days immediately before and after Hurricane Katrina landed in St. Bernard, Louisiana. I consider the project…

Katrina Blog Project

This is a log kept by Storm Hunter, Mark Robinson, about following Hurricane Katrina.

Title: Lady Lives at Holly Beach\r\n\r\nAuthor: Stan Weeber, Associate Professor, Sociology, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA\r\n\r\nThis is a non-fiction short story based on real events in and around Holly…

Marion Weiser is seated outside a Gentilly FEMA trailer in October 2006. An Austrian exchange student who had studied at the University of New Orleans via UNO\'s Center Austria in 2003, Marion Wieser visited with his…

A small glimpse into Post-Katrina New Orleans and FEMA-World!\r\nThoughts and Observations by an \"Outsider\"\r\n\r\nWritten by Marion Wieser.\r\n\r\nThe attached file describes the post-Katrina experiences of an…

University of New Orleans History Department Chair Gunter Bischof soon after the flooding of the city began to compare and contrast New Orleans post-Katrina rebuilding and European post-World War II reconstruction…

Marshall Plan and…

Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society July/August 2006 Volume VII, Number \"Historians in the Midst of Catastrophe: Reflections of the University of New Orleans\'s Department of History after…

Historically…