Documenting Katrina Exhibit
The Business and Government Documents Center invites you to our new exhibit featuring documents and images from Hurricane Katrina. Spanning across various collections at Bobst Library, we have assembled a range of print, video, and online items that help put this disaster into perspective.
From US government documents to Spike Lee's poetic documentary "When The Levees Broke," this exhibit offers a glimpse at the extraordinary response to this disaster.
Here is a sample of the titles with links to either full-text or the item record.
US Government Documents:
The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned
Hurricane Katrina : the roles of U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency leadership : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Lessons Learned: EPA’s Response to Hurricane Katrina
Books:
Come hell or high water : Hurricane Katrina and the color of disaster by Michael Eric Dyson:
Click here for Bobcat Record
Click here for Google Books
Films:
When the Levees Broke: a requiem in four acts
Click here for Bobcat Record
Hurricane Katrina storm that drowned a city
Click here for Bobcat record
Click here for PBS site
Images:
Select the Accunet/AP Photo Archive from our Databases A to Z list.
Journal articles:
Special issue of The Journal of American History
Special issue of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Websites:
Hurricane Katrina Advisory Archive: The National Weather Service compiled this detailed archive of advisories, as well as a graphic display of the Hurricane's path.
The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection.