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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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my name is Chantae and I am 17 years old and I stay in Houston Texas and I have been there for so many New Orleans pepole i have family in Baton Rouge and they were very lucky that the ywere ok but I have so many peolpe…

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

Historically…

The picture is the most surprising image that I have ever seen before. It looks like the water level has become so high at the point that everything is under seawater. I can not image what it would be like been the…

Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society \r\nJuly/August 2006 \r\nVolume VII, Number 6\r\n\r\nJoseph S. Lucas and Donald A. Yerxa, Editors \r\nRandall J. Stephens, Associate…

Historically…

I live on Cape Cod and am a full time graduate student at Boston College working on dual degrees in Social Work and Pastoral Ministry. I am also on the greater Boston advisory board of the Salvation Army. I redeployed…

Operation Helping…

I live on Cape Cod and am a full time graduate student at Boston College working on dual degrees in Social Work and Pastoral Ministry. I am also on the greater Boston advisory board of the Salvation Army. I redeployed…

Operation Helping…

I live on Cape Cod and am a full time graduate student at Boston College working on dual degrees in Social Work and Pastoral Ministry. I am also on the greater Boston advisory board of the Salvation Army. I redeployed…

Operation Helping…

Saturday, September 03, 2005\r\nKatrina\'s Impact Analysis Issues\r\nThe casinos that once operated on floating barges in Mississippi and now litter the landscape of what was once a pristine gulf coast are a stirring…

Katrina\'s Impact…

I lived in the City of Chalmette, La. when Katrina arrived. My neighbor/landlord appeared on my front door step at 6:00 AM Sunday morning pleading with me to leave. Chalmette lies below the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans…

i was aone and nothin was happenin then it started i got blown against a wall and it really hurt but then i cryed and cryed and cryed until i remember wakin po om the floor su, werte i didint know and i all i cud see was…