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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 “Oil” (1 total)

A jack-up oil rig stands on tall support legs above green Gulf of Mexico waters, with a crane extended across its deck, photographed from the Eurma Jane crewboat nearby.

An oil rig located off the Gulf of Mexico. This picture was taken from the Eurma Jane…