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Hurricane Archive

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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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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Nicole Romagossa\'s Aunt tells the following stories about her family\'s connections to Carrollton and Oak Street:\r\n\r\nMy family\'s roots are deep in the Carrollton/Oak Street area. My great grandmother, Pauline…

Oak Street Roots run…

From the locker room floor in Tyler, Texas to the snow covered mountain tops of Montana to the warm southern breeze in Miami, Florida, the University of New Orleans women\'s basketball coach Amy Champion has done more…

My hurricane experience for Katrina was full of arguing, fighting, and bickering between all of my family members and it turned out to be hell. During Gustav, I learned my lesson and went where my family wasn\'t going. I…

Gustav and Lessons…

2006. This is a picture of my FEMA trailer, which was located in front of my house in New Orleans East. It took months for FEMA to actually bring the trailer and hook up the electricity! I lived in it with my mother and…

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