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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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Someone needs to tell the story of what the State of Florida did in southern Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. I can tell a part of the story because I was there. \r\n\r\nAt midday on Aug 29, with the storm still on…

Hurricanes have always been a type of disaster that we would look at from a distance, not being from the region. When Katrina hit, I remember looking at the television wondering what was happening, or worse, what was NOT…

Almost five years ago... yet still so close and affecting the city everyday...\r\n\r\nAugust 29th, 2005: the day that changed the urban landscape of the city of New Orleans. When Hurricane Katrina struck, the Crescent…

As I was sitting in my science classroom in high school visiting with the teacher and my fellow classmates about Katrina and the devastation that the hurricane was leaving behind I thought to myself \"that I would truly…

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