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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.

Items (132 total)

Local church hosted groups from Fall of 2005 until Fall of 2008. List of Churches that stayed in the church to assist in recovery efforts.

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Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Text begins: \"I love to be at Common Ground. Since March of 2006. The first time to volunteer gutting and getting mold at the Lady\'s House, the women & children center. My…

Portrait & Narrative…

Charcoal portrait of Common Ground volunteer. Complete text: \"There is no \'they\' here on the ground. That isn\'t a prescence here like I expected. Residents, workers, volunteers. Three overlapping rings of rebuilding,…

Interview with Vicki Brumfield volunteered to help with recovery following Hurricane Katrina.

Vicki Brumfield…

Interview with Mark Edwards who volunteered in Bogalusa, LA to help with Hurricane Katrina relief

Mark Edwards…

Interview of Dan Pomeroy who went to the Gulf Coast as a member of the American Association of State and Local History to survey damage of historic properties

Charcoal portrait of Nicki Sabalu. Text begins: \"Among my first days in New Orleans a woman invited me to visit her home on Congress Street (Upper Ninth Ward)...\"

Portrait & Narrative…