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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.

Items (8462 total)

September 7, 2005\r\nKatrina: A Category 5 rumor mill \r\n\r\nKatrina whipped up a full-blown, Category 5 typhoon of urban legends, apocryphal rumors and, in some cases, shocking true stories that covered more ground in…

Katrina: A Category…

Thursday, September 08, 2005\r\nRefugees in this line, evacuees over there \r\n\r\nPaul J.J. Payack runs the Global Language Monitor, a San Diego-based site that analyzes word-usage trends. Using an algorithm to analyze…

Refugees in this…

Thursday, September 8, 2005\r\nYe Olde XXX News, Goddammit \r\n\r\nA couple indignant e-mailers today griped that we carried an AP news story out of New Orleans in which an evacuee was quoted saying, \"That\'s what so…

Ye Olde XXX News,…

Thursday September 8, 2005\r\nBOLO for NOLA journalists \r\n\r\nKatrina\'s devastation has drawn reporters to New Orleans like moths to a nuclear flame. But the lack of communications, the chaos, the inherent danger of…

BOLO for NOLA…

Friday, September 9, 2005\r\n\r\nThe corpse on Union Street \r\n\r\nThe best writing and most provocative story so far on Katrina\'s horrific aftermath? Dan Barry\'s Sept. 8 New York Times piece, \"Macabre Reminder: The…

The corpse on Union…

Friday, September 9, 2005\r\nGet high in New Orleans \r\n\r\nIn 1900, when a monster hurricane nearly wiped out Galveston, Texas, the citizenry ultimately responded by literally raising the level of the city and…

Get high in New…

Saturday, September 10, 2005\r\nWhat the Left won\'t tell you \r\n\r\nOK, we all agree that the federal response to Katrina was slow, inadequate and managed by a guy [Michael Brown] who probably wasn\'t up to the job. A…

What the Left won\'t…

Sunday, September 11, 2005\r\nA city of the dead \r\n\r\nHere we are -- again -- at the intersection of Death and Government, a busy crossroads where the unnatural scenarios of a natural process (dying) collide regularly…

A city of the dead

Tuesday, September 13, 2005\r\nCan blacks be racists, too? \r\n\r\nFrom a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll:\r\n... Six in 10 blacks said the federal government was slow in rescuing those stranded in New Orleans after Katrina…

Can blacks be…

Monday, September 19, 2005\r\nTS Rita Watch: Day One \r\n\r\nThis morning, Tropical Storm Rita is lining up to shoot the gap between Cuba and Florida, and should become a full-fledged hurricane later today. In the…

TS Rita Watch: Day…