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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 “Louisiana State Museum” (1 total)

Black-and-white photo of a young boy crouching beside an old cannon mounted on a wooden carriage in a courtyard, with another cannon barrel in the foreground and a balcony above.

Rolland Golden in courtyard of the Cabildo, Louisiana State Museum, in late 1930s New…