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.
The following documents, photographs, and other materials are being compiled by the many branches of the US military that responded to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. <p>
Al Koenig, LTC, FA, USAR (Ft. Gillem, Georgia) is coordinating the collection of materials, and he is the lead author in developing a history of the military response.