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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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Returning from Houston, TX on Sunday, September 7, 2007 (first Sunday after storm) on the Westbank to Terrytown, LA to rescue our cat and get my husband\'s company car.

Journal entry from July 19, 2007 by University of New Orleans graduate student about nightlife in the French Quarter nearly 2 years after Hurricane Katrina. \r\n\r\n

Post-K Summer…

With this post, my time at the Hope House, participating as a member of the Workers Rights Project, will come to a close (at least, for now). First, I would like to apologize for being silent up until this point, forcing…

Internal Salvation

During lunch, we drove to the Ninth Ward to take a look at the most devastated part of New Orleans. The land sits below sea level, and prior to the hurricane, served as government low-income housing. The pictures cannot…

Ninth Ward and the…

Today is the last day of our spring break adventure, and I\'m so upset to see this experience come to an end. I\'ve had the hardest time doing these entries because the volume of information I want to get to people so…

Last day, last…

Another day of phone calls. There are some stories of small victories. A job that is waiting for someone back in New Orleans when they can get back there. An evacuee who received a large sum from FEMA to replace damaged…

Moving forward in…

A good portion of last night\'s dinner discussion was dedicated to answering questions about my day, which turned in to quite the policy discussion. I am staying with friends of mine here in Austin who knew a bit but not…

Katrina Fatigue

I just wrote a long blog entry that got deleted. I tried to pack light so I\'m borrowing a computer and am not familiar with Apple iBook commands. So my words got lost in the system somewhere. Somewhat apropos given that…

The Hurricane…

I think I\'m getting an interesting perspective on post-Katrina relief compared to what my colleagues are reporting from New Orleans. While they are seeing things on the ground, I\'m looking at things from the…

How not to run a…