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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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Online Story Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

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The following was a letter to out friends written sometime after Mardi Gras in early Lent.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAFTERMATH\r\n\r\nDear Friends,\r\n\r\nThe discombobulation of our current circumstances has prevented our…

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Dolphin Returns to…

Living in Galveston, Texas, the threat of a hurricane disaster is not a new one. We grow up under the spell of the \'1900 Storm\' and learn at an early age to accept and prepare.\r\n\r\nWhen Katrina came through, my…

Copy of the speech written and given by Scott S. Cowen, President of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA at the George Mason University Commencement ceremony in Fairfax, VA on May 20, 2006.

Hurrican Katrina found us on the Gulf of Mexico in Florida where we had been vacationing just prior to the storm. Saturday Aug. 27 my husband and I drove from Destin Florida to New Orleans to secure our property and get…

Author\'s Note: I wrote and sent this letter to the President of the United States on the Wednesday following Hurricane Katrina. I don\'t live in New Orleans - but I love new Orleans, I hope everyone recognizes that…

The following is a recounting of the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita upon the USS KIDD Veterans Memorial and some of its employees in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“On Sunday, August 28, 2005, the employees of the…

My name is SSG Tom Murphy and I am with the 747th Military Police Company of the Massachusetts Army national Guard. When we arrived in Louisiana with 140 MP\'s we flew into Belle Chase NVS. We stayed there for 3 days…

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I visited the state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans for the first time on a family vacation late June 2005. I immediately fell in love with New Orleans. The music, culture, history, and yes, the food was…

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