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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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That Monday - when the floods began to rush and roll and creep into the city - I was traveling from Portland, Oregon to Bogota, Colombia. I clung to the New York Times I had just bought because I couldn\'t watch the TV…

Author: Stan Weeber, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA\r\n\r\nA report on the difficulties in reinitiating college sociology classes at McNeese State…

Reinitiating…

I was one of many Paramedics who came from all over the U.S. when many in N.O. where in very grave danger, we tried and saved many lives but some where not so lucky and for that I am sorry.\r\n\r\n I was base in Baton…

Fila Phil New Orleans Own All I got to say is we will Bounce back nomatter what yaheardme , They never cared anyway 9thward

I am one of the lucky ones--who got out in time\r\nand landed in a good place. \r\n On Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005, I left my apartment\r\nin Lakeview and headed to my boyfriend\'s sister\'s\r\nhouse in Lafayette. I got…

i am my own hero. i survided outside holding onto an electrical wire for 6 hours in 12 feet of water.i actually drowned and came back to life. the last thing i remember is telling god thank you for my life, yelling i…

New Orleans is a GREAT city, it is full of hope. EXCEPT for the rebuilding effort!!!

My family and myself was in Bay St. Louis when Katrina made landfall and we rode it out. What i recall of that storm I will never forget the sound of the wind screaming the sound of the glass as it busted, the sights I…

As I walk up the steps of the home I worked all my life for,memories of August 29 come flooding back. I look up and see the peak of the roof that my daughter and baby and I climbed onto during the eye of Katrina. I can…

Attorney Frank Silvestri\'s 2007 filings on Michael Brown. Silvestri is handling the Herbert Freeman suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over the death of his mother, Ethel Freeman, at the Morial…

Plaintiff\'s Second…