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Historians Helping Historians:
Hurricane Katrina Resources

Last updated: 09:14 AM, 01/26/06

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Urgent:  On Rescuing New Orleans’ History

The important historical records of New Orleans are in grave danger of being lost forever. Specifically fragile are the municipal records dating back to 1769, as well as Orleans Parish court records dating back to 1804 held at the Louisiana Division of the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL).* For a description of the current state of the historical records, complete with photographs and ways you can help now, please visit http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/ ~dwilliam/savethehistory.htm

FEDERAL RESOURCES

U.S. Department of Education: Hurricane Help for Schools
http://www.ed.gov/news/hurricane/index.html

FirstGov
http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/ PublicSafety/Hurricane_Katrina_Recovery.shtml
FirstGov presents many government and major disaster relief organization sites into one.

HISTORY/HUMANITIES RESOURCES

National Trust for Historic Preservation
http://www.nationaltrust.org/

HNN Katrina Blog for Tulane, University of New Orleans History Students and Faculty
http://hnn.us/blogs/45.html

Society of American Archivists (SAA) / Society of Southwest Archivists (SSA): Hurricane Assistance
http://herbie.ischool.utexas.edu/ssacares/

American Studies Association
http://www.georgetown.edu/ crossroads/AmericanStudiesAssn/ resources/Katrina.htm

COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY RESOURCES

Louisiana State University List of Colleges Offering Aid to Displaced Students
http://www.lsu.edu/university_relations/ mediacenter/nr/20050902_univasst.htm

Colleges Accepting Katrina Displaced Students
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ academics_anon/853282.html

GENERAL RESOURCES

MoveOn: Hurricane Housing
http://hurricanehousing.org/

Craigslist
http://neworleans.craigslist.org/hhh/

Disaster Housing Resources Online
http://www.dhronline.org/chooseState.cfm

Houston: Realtors Help
http://www.har.com/RealtorsHelp/

Katrina Help Wiki on Wikipedia
http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Katrina Refugees United
http://refugeesunited.org

Yahoo! Hurricane Katrina Message Boards
http://boards.news.yahoo.com/boards/

Eye of the Hurricane
http://www.eyeofthehurricanes.com/Forum/

CNN Help Center
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/ 2005/katrina/help.center/

NON-PROFIT CHARITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

2-1-1
http://www.211.org/

United Way of the Gulf Coast
http://katrina.uwtgc.org/index.html

Habitat for Humanity
http://www.habitat.org

Katrina Shelter
http://www.katrinashelter.com/

STATE / LOCAL  RESOURCES

Alabama State Government
http://www.state.al.us/statenews.php

Montgomery, Alabama: Shelter Information
www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3776129

Florida Hurricane Relief Fund
http://www.flahurricanefund.org/

Arkansas State Assistance
http://www.kare.arkansas.gov/

Baton Rouge: Shelter Information
http://www.braf.org/index.cfm

NOLA.com
http://www.nola.com/forums/homesavailable/
Nola.com is a site generally devoted to entertainment and living in New Orleans. Currently, a section of the forums has postings offering housing to people displaced by Katrina. Offers are made through discussion list postings, so are not aggregated or verified by any third party.