NARA Catalog is Down. Here's What I Saved.

500+ Katrina Files You Can Download FREE.

UPDATE: FREE ZIP [4GB] - 500+ PUBLIC ACCESS FILES
RELATING TO HURRICANE KATRINA FROM THE NARA CATALOG

I’ve been collecting these documents over the span of a year.

The NARA catalog is down for “maintenance” and “search engine updates” currently (March 28, 2025).

“ATTENTION: The Catalog will not be available on Saturday, March 29 from 8 AM EST to 8 PM EST and may be intermittently unavailable from Saturday, March 29 at 8 PM EST to Sunday, March 30 at 11 PM EST due to scheduled maintenance and search engine updates.” -NARA

This coming less than 24 hours after the Trump White House released an Executive Order that quite literally revises history.

The order not only seeks to censor the history the Smithsonian preserves, but also names the African American History Museum and Women’s History museums specifically as promoting “idealogical indoctrination” and “divisive narratives that distort our shared history.”

And with the National Archives site down for the count, all research that depends on it as a resource is halted. It touches every single field of study imaginable.

For me, it was a treasure trove of information regarding Hurricane Katrina, helping me piece together a broken history, and I could not let that be taken away.

I’ve been downloading and preserving public access documents for over a year at this point, and after losing physical records in the disaster that was Katrina, losing digital ones was simply not an option for me.

I created my Katrina Database, in addition to other resources, and have been sharing these files for free on my Patreon for the public to access as needed.

Here is a zip file (4gb in size) with over 500 files of various formats that refer to Hurricane Katrina, all from the National Archives Catalog and public government websites.

I implore you to utilize this, whether you’re an economist, a social scientist, an environmentalist, an archivist, a historian, a medical professional, or just someone who wants to learn about the way this country works— there is something here for you.

I’ve compiled everything you’ll ever need to know about Katrina, all free here: https://www.patreon.com/daiquiriheiress. I have tiers starting at $1 for monetary support, but all public access articles will be free, forever.