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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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To supplement one portion of Susan\'s amazing post, please check out the following link about the ICE raid on Lee Circle.\r\n\r\nAbraham Salcedo worked on the same project as Laureve and me. He and several other Fordham…

In an effort to make sense of the 40-something posts we\'ve accrued over the past nine days, I\'ve created a little synopsis of everyone\'s posts, with a link to the original. Nothing is a substitute for the original…

Review and debrief

I too worked on Second Wind, the small business initiative. I spent all week talking to business owners, hearing their stories, encouraging them to stand together as a community in a time of need. Toward the end of the…

Give them what…

When I returned from New Orleans, I was a bag of mixed emotions. \"I can\'t believe I\'m leaving, I can\'t believe I\'ve been gone a whole week, and I can\'t believe it\'s over.\"\r\n\r\nBut that\'s the thing. It\'s not…

Returning Home, and…

I almost left New Orleans without having visited the lower Ninth Ward, where the devastation of Hurricane Katrina reaches truly cataclysmic proportions. Fully immersed as I was in the process of interpreting docket…