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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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Attorney Frank Silvestri\'s September 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…

Attorney Frank 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 Convention Center. \r\n\r\nThe attached file is…

Michael Brown\'s…

Attorney Frank Silvestri\'s September 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…

Plaintiff\'s…

this was our old house right outside new orleans crushed to pieces.\r\nthere was 6 kids and it scared us. Shillette,isabella,haley,Sawyer, tommy and lindsay rees.

before the town was peaceful but know we are still fearing the worst

I have many hurricane heroes. They are my Jester Dolls, thats what I call them,anyway. Because I live in Montgomery, when Katrina hit my vavorite city in the Southeast, probably even in the United States now, well...let…

My most important memory from the storm is the fact that the Saturday night before Katrina rolled in I was in costume with hundreds of other revelers marching through the neighborhoods of Uptown with two brass bands, a…

i feel so sorry for the people in new orleans and it so many kids coming from new orleans 2 my school smith middle school but some want back 2 new orleans.now i\'m happy because they got there homes and car and some of…

Report from American Red Cross about their work two years after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma hit the Gulf Coast. \r\n

Face of Recovery

The first house I lived in was the color of mustard, which I definetely didn\'t appreciate at the age of five. I secretly wished my parents would suddenly decide to paint it a more \"normal\" color like the other houses…