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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.

Items tagged “Emotion” (1 total)

A National Guard soldier in camouflage fatigues and backpack embraces an older woman in a striped jacket on a residential street, with storm-damaged homes and debris visible in the background.

It was October 1, 2005, and it was the first day my 74-year old mother-in-law was able to…