| 200 Years of Baton Rouge History | | An extensive timeline of this history of Baton Rouge. | Click Here |
| 200 Years of the City Charter | New Orleans Public Library | An extensive collection of images detailing the evolution of the City Charter. | Click Here |
| 2005 Tropical Cyclone Advisory Archive | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration | An archive of National Weather Service Advisories Issued in 2005 | Click Here |
| AP Archive | AP | A collection of videos taken before, during, and after the storm. | Click Here |
| Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Overview | National Centers For Environmental Information | NOAA website that details U.S. weather disasters. | Click Here |
| Caselaw Access Project | Harvard Law School | Free access to state and federal court decisions. | Click Here |
| CIMSS Satellite Blog - Katrina | University of Wisconsin-Madison | The intent of this blog is to showcase examples of meteorological satellite imagery and products that are available to (or created by) scientists and researchers at NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), located at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) . Interesting and/or educational satellite images that are relevant to current (or recent) weather events will be shown and discussed; if no significant or newsworthy weather events are happening elsewhere in the US (or the world), we will usually focus on satellite imagery over the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions. | Click Here |
| City of New Orleans | - | The City government's website. | Click Here |
| City of New Orleans - City Archives and Special Collection | - | The City Archives & Special Collections the official; repository of the records of the Municipal Government of the City of New Orleans, 1769 to the present. | Click Here |
| City of New Orleans Department of Public Works | - | The Department of Public Works is composed of five divisions responsible for maintaining approximately 1,547 miles of streets (21,000,000 square yards of pavement) and 149 bridges in the City of New Orleans. This system includes 72,000 catch basins and approximately 8,200,000 linear feet of drainage lines. | Click Here |
| City of New Orleans Master Plan | - | The City engaged in a City Charter mandated amendment process from 2016 to 2018. The Plan can be found here. | Click Here |
| City of New Orleans Property Viewer | - | Find information about any parcel in the city with links to Assessor Records. | Click Here |
| City Planning Commission | City of New Orleans | As described in title. | Click Here |
| Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse | University of Michigan Law | The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse collects and presents documents and information from large-scale civil rights cases across the United States. | Click Here |
| Claiborne Avenue Alliance | - | The Claiborne Avenue Alliance is a coalition of residents, property and business owners dedicated to the thoughtful development of the Claiborne Corridor. The alliance was founded in 2017. | Click Here |
| Claiborne Avenue History Project | - | The Claiborne Avenue History Project (CAHP) is a multi-platform documentary project that collects and curates history about North Claiborne Avenue focusing on civil rights, culture, and commerce from the Avenue’s heyday in the early 20th century, through its demise with the 1966-69 construction of the I-10 highway, and into North Claiborne today. | Click Here |
| Climate Change Litigation Database | Columbia Law School; Arnold & Porter | The "website provides two databases of climate change litigation: (1) a U.S. Climate Change Litigation database and (2) a Global Climate Change Litigation database..." | Click Here |
| Climate Data Online | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. | Climate Data Online (CDO) provides free access to NCDC's archive of global historical weather and climate data in addition to station history information. | Click Here |
| Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana | | The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to drive bold, science-based action to sustain a dynamic coastal Louisiana through engagement and advocacy. | Click Here |
| Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority | State of Louisiana | The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s mandate is to develop, implement, and enforce a comprehensive coastal protection and restoration Master Plan. | Click Here |
| Coastal Resilience Center | University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | Created under a 5 year grant, when will the grant expire and will additional funds be allocated? | Click Here |
| Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act | | A website with information on the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act. | Click Here |
| Congress.gov | U.S. Congress | Find history and text of U.S. Congress legislation. | Click Here |
| Congressional Report - Condition of Affairs in hte Late Insurrectionary States - 13 Volumes, Report and Testimony | The Online Books Page | University of Pennsylvannia | Click Here |
| Court Listener | Free Law Project | Opinions, docket search tool, oral arguments and more for selected cases. | Click Here |
| Deep South Center for Envirornmental Justice | | The Center "is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families harmed by pollution and vulnerable to climate change in the Gulf Coast Region through research, education, community and student engagement for policy change..." | Click Here |
| Deepwater Horizon - BP Gulf of Mexico Spill | US Environmental Protection Agency | A resource page by the EPS with links to various government reported analyzing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. | Click Here |
| Dictionary of Canadian Biography | University of Toronto | As described in title. | Click Here |
| Dictionary of Louisiana Biography | | Louisiana Historical Association | Click Here |
| Digest of the Acts and Deliberations of the Cabildo | New Orleans Public Library | As described in title. | Click Here |
| Disaster Research Center | University of Delaware | The Disaster Research Center is committed to advancing the state of the art in disaster research and its scientifically guided practice... | Click Here |
| FBI FOIA Library | Federal Bureau of Investigation | The Vault is our new FOIA Library, containing 6,700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office. | Click Here |
| FEMA Flood Maps | - | As described in title. | Click Here |
| FEMA's Risk Rating 2.0 Projected Premium Change Analysis | Flood Science Center - Assoc. of Floodplain Managers | The ASFPM Flood Science Center has created three new easy-to-use data visualization dashboards that show the projected premium changes for policyholders by geography, using datasets from FEMA's analysis of NFIP policyholder information. | Click Here |
| Fix the pumps | - | A blog by New Orleans native Matt McBride. Mr. McBride is an engineer and has documented failings by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His posts go back to 2007. | Click Here |
| Flood Protection Authority - East | - | After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the State of Louisiana determined that there was a need to regionalize levee districts in order to coordinate plans, projects, and procedures to better protect its citizens in the event of future storms. To accomplish this goal, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (Flood Protection Authority) was created by an act of the State Legislature in 2006. The Flood Protection Authority is governed by a nine-member Board of Commissioners appointed by the Governor. | Click Here |
| Folklife in Louisiana | Louisiana Dividion of the Arts | State of Louisiana | Click Here |
| Follow the Oil | | An interactive website that maps oil and gas infrastructure in Louisiana "making a case for corporate accountability and reparations." | Click Here |
| Former Governors - Louisiana | | As described in title. | Click Here |
| From Red Stick to River Capital | | A webpage detailing the history of Baton Rouge. | Click Here |
| George W. Bush Library - Hurricane Katrina | The White House | A collection of documents related to the Bush White House response to Hurricane Katrina. | Click Here |
| George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum | - | The official presidential library of George W. Bush. | Click Here |
| Glossary of National Hurricane Center Terms | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | As described in title. | Click Here |
| Gov Docs: Hurricane Katrina (2005): Home | University of South Alabama | An extensive collection of links to hearings, reports, and other website relating to Hurricane Katrina. | Click Here |
| GovInfo | - | GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch. | Click Here |
| Hathitrust Digital Library | - | Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law. | Click Here |
| Hazards Vulnerability & Resilience Institute | University of South Carolina | The..Institute (HVRI) is an interdisciplinary research and training center focused on the development of spatial analytical information, data, methods, and application for integrating hazard and climate information to advance equitable planning and management... | Click Here |
| Historic American Buildings Survey - Louisiana | | The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Since 2000, documentation from the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) has been added to the holdings. | Click Here |
| Historic Faubourg Treme Association | - | A neighborhood association promoting the Treme district. (HFTA.) | Click Here |
| History of Louisiana/New Orleans | - | A website with a varied collection of public copies of historical texts related to Louisiana and New Orleans history. Full texts from Gayarre, Grace, Kendall, and others. | Click Here |
| Homeland Security Digital Library | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security. | Click Here |
| Howard Tilton Memorial Library | Tulane University | Howard-Tilton Memorial Library is Tulane University’s main library. | Click Here |
| Hurricane Ida Advisory Archive | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. | U.S. Department of Commerce | Click Here |
| Hurricane Katrina - What Happened? | Stephen A. Nelson | Dr. Nelson of Tulane University curated a site with a wide array of Hurricane Katrina facts, images, and links. | Click Here |
| Hurricane Katrina Advisory Archive | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. | U.S. Department of Commerce | Click Here |
| Hurricane Katrina Final Project: Evidence and Inference | Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism | This site contains dozens of links to source documents prepared by federal, state, local, and interested parties on a wide variety of topics concerning Hurricane Katrina. | Click Here |
| Internet Archive Scholar | Internet Archive | In addition to archiving much of the public web, the Internet Archive preserves and makes available other collections of materials, including more than 25 million open access scholarly papers through the Internet Archive Scholar service. | Click Here |
| Jefferson Parish Department of Drainage | Jefferson Parish | The Department of Drainage is responsible for the administration, direction, coordination and implementation of major drainage and flood control programs and direct operation, construction and maintenance of: 340 miles of drainage canals, drainage ditches, crossdrains, culverts, and levee systems; 1465 miles of street subsurface drainage systems; and operation and maintenance of 71 drainage pump stations. | Click Here |
| John T. Mendes Photograph Collection | LDL/The Historic New Orleans Collection | Between 1916 and the mid-1930s, John Tibule Mendes (1888-1965) was a consistent and curious observer of life in the Crescent City. The 609 gelatin dry plate negatives that form the Mendes archive were donated to The Historic New Orleans Collection by Waldemar S. Nelson in 2003. | Click Here |
| JSTOR | - | A subscription service for academic papers. | Click Here |
| Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | The University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Dupré Library houses the papers of Kathleen Babineaux Blanco’s gubernatorial administration. | Click Here |
| Katrina-Rita Recovery Action Plans and Amendments | Louisiana Office of Community Development | A collection of action plans and amendments. | Click Here |
| LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana | | Our mission is promoting and encouraging the protection and preservation of materials that chronicle the culture and history of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community in Louisiana. | Click Here |
| Louisiana Campaign Finance Reports | State of Louisiana | A database of campaign finance reports for the State of Louisiana. | Click Here |
| Louisiana Climate Initiative Task Force Meetings | State of Louisiana | a YouTube channel presenting Task Force meetings. | Click Here |
| Louisiana Digital Consortium | - | The Louisiana Digital Consortium (LDC) is a partnership of participating Louisiana libraries, museums, archives and cultural heritage institutions. The LDC provides governance and leadership to ensure the effective operation, orderly growth and fiscal sustainability of the Louisiana Digital Library and other cooperative programs. | Click Here |
| Louisiana Digital Library | - | The Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of more than 400,000 digital items from Louisiana archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories, making unique historical treasures accessible to students, researchers, and the general public in Louisiana and across the globe. The items in the Louisiana Digital Library are as diverse and interesting as the people and places in Louisiana, with photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more documenting the state’s history and culture. | Click Here |
| Louisiana Flood Maps | - | Louisiana State School of Agriculture | Click Here |
| Louisiana Historical Association | - | The Association publishes the Louisiana History Journal as well and promotes research into Louisiana History. | Click Here |
| Louisiana Historical Society | - | Founded in 1835, the Louisiana Historical Society is the oldest historical organization in the state. The State of Louisiana first chartered it in 1836, and has rechartered it several times since then. For a number of decades during the 19th century, the society was the official custodian of the colonial records of Louisiana, including the French Superior Council records and the Spanish Judicial Records of the Illustrious Cabildo… | Click Here |
| Louisiana Hurricanes | Louisiana State Libraries | A collection of sources on Louisiana Hurricanes curated by the LSU library. | Click Here |
| Louisiana Law Library | - | | Click Here |
| Louisiana Laws | Justia | Current and past Louisiana state law. | Click Here |
| Louisiana Recovery Authority Collection 2005-2008 | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | This collection contains all the working files from the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA). Included are correspondence, publicity, committee material, reports, task force material, and other documents. | Click Here |
| Louisiana State Archives | State of Louisiana | The Louisiana State Archives, a division of the Louisiana Secretary of State's office, is mandated to identify, to collect, to preserve, to maintain, and to make available those records and artifacts that enhance our endeavors to understand the dynamics and nuances of our state's remarkable history. | Click Here |
| Louisiana State Legislature | State of Louisiana | This site provides searches for Louisiana legislation. | Click Here |
| Louisiana State Museum | - | The state-sponsored museum for the history of Louisiana. | Click Here |
| LSU Digital Commons | Louisiana State University | Online dissertations. | Click Here |
| LSU Law Center: Climate Change Law and Policy Project | Louisiana State University | The Climate Change Law and Policy Project focuses on the unique risks faced by Southern Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta. | Click Here |
| LSU Law Center: Climate Change Law and Policy Project - MRGO History and Restoration | Louisiana State University | Mississippi River Gulf Outlets Reports | Click Here |
| LSU University Archives | - | The University Archives preserves and provides access to resources that illuminate the history of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College since 1860. | Click Here |
| Mayor Ray Nagin's Subject/Correspondence Files | New Orleans Public Library | Records and documents created under Mayor Nagin's administration. The file is incomplete as many Katrina related documents were not produced. | Click Here |
| Mississippi River Commission | - | The general duties of the MRC include the recommendation of policy and work flood control, navigation, and environmental projects on the Mississippi River. | Click Here |
| National Hurricane Center Data Archive | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | The NHC mission is to save lives, mitigate property loss, and improve economic efficiency by issuing the best watches, warnings, forecasts, and analyses of hazardous tropical weather... | Click Here |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | - | To understand and predict changes in climate, weather, ocean, and coasts, to share that knowledge and information with others. | Click Here |
| Newpapers.com | | As described in title, a paid service that provides access to archived U.S. newspapers. | Click Here |
| NOPD Consent Decree | City of New Orleans | A City of New Orleans webpage that archives information related to the Consent Decree between the City, the NOPD and the DOJ. | Click Here |
| Northwestern State University of Louisiana | - | As described in title. | Click Here |
| Open Access Theses and Dissertations | OATD.Org | OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. | Click Here |
| Outfall Canals and Interim Closure Structures | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | A web page dedicated to the main outfall canals in the city of New Orleans. | Click Here |
| Parish Maps | - | State of Louisiana | Click Here |
| Pontchartrain Conservancy | - | Pontchartrain Conservancy’s mission is to drive environmental sustainability and stewardship through scientific research, education, and advocacy...The Lake Pontchartrain Basin is a 10,000 square mile watershed encompassing 16 Louisiana parishes. The land use of the region is both rural and urban and is the most densely populated region in Louisiana, including metro New Orleans and the state capital, Baton Rouge. It is one of the largest estuarine systems in the Gulf of Mexico containing over 22 essential habitats. The Basin's topography ranges from rolling woodlands in the north to coastal marshes in the south, with the 630 square mile Lake Pontchartrain as its centerpiece. | Click Here |
| President George W. Bush Archived White House Website | - | A webpage (no longer updated) with links to various Geroge W. Bush White House webpages. | Click Here |
| Presidential Daily Diary | - | A spreadsheet of available Diary pages for the George W. Bush Presidency. | Click Here |
| ProQuest | - | A collection that "includes the world’s largest collection of dissertations and theses; 20 million pages and three centuries of global, national, regional and specialty newspapers; more than 450,000 ebooks; rich aggregated collections of the world’s most important scholarly journals and periodicals; and unique vaults of digitized historical collections from great libraries and museums...' | Click Here |
| Ravel (Legal Library) | - | A commercial website to search both state and federal caselaw. Coverage includes all published cases, from every state and federal court, from all time periods. | Click Here |
| Risk Rating 2.0: Equity in Action | | An explanation of new methodologies used to create flood risk ratings. | Click Here |
| ScholarWorks@UNO | The University of New Orleans | ScholarWorks@UNO, a service of the Earl K. Long Library, is a digital collection of the research, scholarship, and creative work of the University of New Orleans. | Click Here |
| Sea Level Rise Viewer | National Oceanographic | View potential changes in marsh and other land cover types based on inundation levels. | Click Here |
| Slave Voyages | | An extensive collection of data from sources throughout the world that chronicle international slave voyages. | Click Here |
| South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center | | The South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center will serve as a hub to increase awareness of the plight of Louisiana’s wetlands so that this valuable resource may be preserved for future generations. | Click Here |
| Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - West | - | To protect the citizens and businesses of the West Bank of the Greater New Orleans area in Jefferson and Orleans parishes from hurricanes and riverine flooding by inspecting, operating and maintaining the integrity of our levees, floodwalls and floodgates. | Click Here |
| State Library of Louisiana | - | The State Library provides Louisianans access to more than eleven million items through its own excellent collection and electronic resources combined with a statewide online lending network of public libraries... | Click Here |
| Tempests: Storms in the Archives | Louisiana State University | In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the curators offer this exhibition to show how these notorious tempests are situated within two centuries of storms, coastal erosion, and levee failures. | Click Here |
| The Data Center | - | The Data Center, a fully independent and neutral nonprofit, is the most trusted resource for data about Southeast Louisiana. Founded in 1997, we are experts at bringing together and communicating data from multiple sources. | Click Here |
| The Green Papers | - | An amazing site with information on elections in all 50 states. The site also maintains a database on past elections and primary dates. | Click Here |
| The Historic New Orleans Collection | - | The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) is a museum, research center, and publisher dedicated to preserving the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South. | Click Here |
| The Online Books Page | University of Pennsylvania | Many of the early books dealing with the history of Louisiana can be found at this site. | Click Here |
| The Presbytère | Louisiana State Museum | Originally a commercial buildiing and then a courthouse, the building has been part of the Louisiana State Museum since 1911. It is located in Jackson Square. | Click Here |
| The Vault | Federal Bureau of Investigation | The Vault is our new FOIA Library, containing 6,700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office. | Click Here |
| The Water Collaborative | - | The Water Collaborative seeks to build a diverse network for all impacted by flood risk by focusing on equitable practices to sustainably live and thrive with water. | Click Here |
| Tropical Cyclones | Colorado State University | A website hosted by CSU that presents tropical weather and climate research. | Click Here |
| Tulane University Digital Library | - | As described in title. | Click Here |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District Website | | We meet the daily challenges associated with protecting the region from hurricane & storm damage, facilitating navigation along the Mississippi River, and simultaneously working to protect and restore the fragile and disappearing ecosystem that houses the water resources we manage. | Click Here |
| University of Louisiana Lafayette | - | As described in title. | Click Here |
| Vieux Carré Commission | City of New Orleans | The City Commission that regulates the Vieux Carré . | Click Here |
| Vieux Carré Virtual Library | City of New Orleans | The Vieux Carré Virtual Library is a map-based electronic archive of countless Vieux Carré Commission images, documents, and records. | Click Here |
| Wayback Machine | Internet Archive | Retrieve archived web pages of all types. "The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge." | Click Here |
| World Digital Library | - | Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world. The WDL sought to preserve and share some of the world’s most important cultural objects, increasing access to cultural treasures and significant historical documents to enable discovery, scholarship, and use. | Click Here |
| WorldCat | OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. | WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information. | Click Here |
