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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 “Newspaper” (1 total)

Torn newspaper clipping headlined "News Of N.O., State Servicemen" with twelve portrait photos of servicemen labeled with surnames including Bernard, Fricke, Morris, Dauth, Gervais, Roule, Garsaud, and Williams, alongside columns of text and a horoscope chart.

New Orleans state servicemen who returned from World War II. Mitchel Bernard (top left),…