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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 “New Orleans Mount Carmel Academy” (1 total)

Black-and-white portrait of a young girl with hair pulled back, wearing a satin dress with a bow, lying back and smiling as she looks off to the side.

Ann Cumminsky. New Orleans. This image was collected in a workshop with students from the…