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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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I was 16 during Katrina. I went where my parents went. My mom decided that she wanted to ride out the storm in a hotel room downtown. Being a Cat 3 did not raise much of an alarm to us. The weekend was filled with…

We live in the tiny town where Katrina first came ashore in Louisiana. \r\nBuras, Lousiana. \r\nOur story is epic. It is a story of the fight for and the survival of a whole town.\r\nFor those of us who lived here prior…

View of my house and lot from our neighbor\'s rooftop.

\r\nIt Just Came\r\n\r\n It wasn\'t something I asked for; it isn\'t something that I would give a friend, but looking back, I suppose it was a gift. It just came in an ugly package and it certainly didn\'t have a…

As part of my History class I took a Katrina/City Tour of New Orleans

This file is a PowerPoint presentation of the History of the Zulu Parade of New Orleans, LA.

This is a short PowerPoint Presentation regarding professional basketball history in New Orleans.

Storyville

loup-garou, Cajun folktale

I will add some stories out of my present research here in New Orleans based on interviews with people who are related to Katrina or the recovery process in New Orleans (victims of Katrina, social entrepreneurs,…