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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.

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Two men in white shirts stand in a debris-strewn yard beside a blue house, surrounded by fallen tree branches and limbs, with a boarded window visible on the home's front door.

This picture was taken the day after Katrina hit. My family and I stayed in our home in…

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History is Irreplaceable