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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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About me:\r\nGender: Male\r\nAge: 27 (DOB: 4/18/80)\r\nEthnicity: Hispanic/Latino\r\nPolitical Affiliation: Democrat\r\nEducation: B.S. in Education History/Social Studies; Master of Library and Information Science…

I do not watch the news...I\'m a full time student and was studying like a mad woman. My dad called me around midnight on the Friday before Katrina hit and told me to get a bag packed and fill my car up with gas. I…

Luci Baines Johnson\r\n\r\nI first met Luci in 2001. I didn\'t so much meet Luci as encounter her. I was on a marathon swing through Texas for Cornell, Austin, San Antonio, Waco, Dallas, back to Austin all in one…

Niema\r\n\r\nWhen I was married, I wanted a Golden Retriever for about 10 years, before I actually had the nerve, against my husband\'s wishes, to purchase one. Four years before that actually happened another holiday…

This is a letter to work crews outlining how to submit to this collection.

These are pictures of how the residents of St. Bernard parish were effected by Hurricane Katrina.

Katrina Does St.…

The following are emails from the early days after Katrina that for me explain a lot of my experience in the uncertainty left by the storm.\r\nMy First Email to Friends & Family After Katrina:\r\n-----Original…

T-Rouge\r\n\r\nI left her Friday morning at the kennel. Ark was near the house. We could walk there, and sometimes, we did. She had been there so many times for visits: routine, planned and unplanned, major medical…

Niema\r\n\r\nWhen I was married, I wanted a Golden Retriever for about 10 years, before I actually had the nerve, against my husband\'s wishes, to purchase one. Four years before that actually happened another holiday…

When it became apparent that I needed to leave D.C. that Sunday, because the Katrina was making land fall on the morning of August 29, I had an early afternoon flight already booked and a late evening flight also booked.…