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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)

Wednesday, September 28, 2005\r\n\r\nPostcards from the edge \r\n\r\nAs reporters in this thrashed landscape, we function essentially as the senses of our readers. Not every story is a press-con, a collection of data, an…

Postcards from the…

Thursday, September 29, 2005\r\n\r\nRita Media: Storm porn, fast-food news & the blogosphere \r\n\r\nIn his \"Six Lessons from Online Coverage of Hurricane Rita,\" columnist Mark Glaser of the University of Southern…

Rita Media: Storm…

Friday, September 30, 2005\r\nQuick bytes of Rita \r\n\r\nBeaumont and Port Arthur are allowing citizens to return today, albeit reluctantly. Authorities in both cities would like for returnees to secure their homes,…

Quick bytes of Rita

Sunday, October 02, 2005\r\nCOMEBACK TIME: Here\'s your paper ... \r\nBefore dawn, I awoke like a kid on Christmas morning. For 10 days, our newspaper had been a well-organized but intangible collection of pixels…

COMEBACK TIME:…

Monday, October 03, 2005\r\nWhat passes for Normal, Texas \r\nIt\'s been 11 days since Hurricane Rita plundered Southeast Texas. The news has come faster and more furiously than a sustained hurricane-force gust. Under…

What passes for…

Wednesday, October 05, 2005\r\nSame ol\' TV, same ol\' sob story \r\n\r\nWhat happens when you find a needy person or family, tell their story in a way that wrings the emotion out of it, make sure the protagonists cry on…

Same ol\' TV, same…

Thursday, October 06, 2005\r\n\r\nA bad season for trees \r\n\r\nI grew up in windswept Wyoming, where we always said only half-sarcastically there were just two seasons: Winter and the Fourth of July. In fact, the…

A bad season for…

Monday, October 17, 2005\r\nA calm before the (next) storm \r\n\r\nLet not a flood of waters overflow me,\r\nNor let the deep swallow me up,\r\nNor let the pit shut her mouth upon me. \r\nPsalm 69:15 \r\nAs Tropical…

A calm before the…

Tuesday, October 18, 2005\r\nYou know you live on the Gulf Coast when ... \r\n\r\n You have FEMA\'s number on speed dial.\r\nYou have more than 300 C and D batteries in your kitchen drawer.\r\n You know what…

You know you live on…

Tuesday, October 25, 2005\r\nKatrina vs Rita: Facts and fancies \r\n\r\nTwo Katrina-vs-Rita comparisons are floating around the Internet right now. One is a data comparison chart that shows the two storms were far more…

Katrina vs Rita:…