- Lending Library
- OPB is pleased to offer the Lending Library as a benefit to Cornerstone Society, President’s Council, and Wyllis Johnson Legacy Society members as well as OPB Business Partners. Now you may enjoy viewing or listening to your favorite programs at your convenience.
- Members and Partners may borrow up to 2 items at a time for up to 21 days, at which time you simply drop the item in the mail using the envelope and postage provided. If the item you have selected is currently on loan, we will be happy to reserve it for you. We hope you enjoy this service.
- Your Request List
- How to use our online request form
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- · Click "Details / Add to list" to get a full description of a program.
- · If you decide you would like to check out a program, click the "Add to Request List" button at the bottom of the detail page.
- · You may continue browsing and add up to two items to your request list.
- · When you are ready to check out, click "Check Out" from the bottom of your Request List.
- · On the next page, select your OPB membership status from the pull-down menu.
- · Enter your shipping/contact information and any comments you may have.
- · Click the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page and your request will be on its way.
- For more information or to select by phone:
- If you're a Business Partner, please e-mail Lori Bernet or call 503.293.1950.
- If you're a Cornerstone Society, President's Council or Wyllis Johnson Legacy Society member, please e-mail Julie Arnzen or call 503.977.7765.
Lending Library
A Service for OPB Cornerstone Members and Business Partners
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American Experience: Death and the Civil War(Available)
With the coming of the Civil War, contending with death on an unprecedented scale posed challenges for which there were no ready answers when the war began. Americans worked to improvise new solutions, new institutions, and new ways of coping...
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American Experience: Dolley Madison(Available)
As the wife of the fourth president, James Madison, Dolley Madison played an important part in the political and social experiment that was the early American Republic. Long before women held any overt political power, she used her unelected...
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American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt(Available)
For more than thirty years, she was the most powerful woman in America. Niece of one president and wife of another, Eleanor Roosevelt was at the center of much of this century's history--a charismatic woman of charm and of contradictions...
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American Experience: FDR, The Presidents Collection(Available)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt restored hope to a country that had lost it, led the nation during the greatest war in history, and championed the common man. FDR goes beyond the familiar words and images to explore his hidden dimensions. What...
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American Experience: Fidel Castro(Available)
Fidel Castro has survived U.S. hostility, an invasion, several CIA assassination attempts and an economic embargo. His face has become an iconic image worldwide, yet the man himself remains an enigma to all but a few. Through interviews with...
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American Experience: Freedom Riders(Available)
This inspirational documentary is about a band of courageous civil-rights activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders.
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American Experience: GEORGE H.W. BUSH, The Presidents Collection(Available)
When George H.W. Bush left the Oval Office in 1992, rejected after one tumultuous presidential term, this thirty-year career in public service came to an abrupt and unexpected end. Despite soaring approval rating following military victory...
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(10 DVD)
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American Experience: God in America(Missing)
For those who know that in America, religion matters, and for those who wish it didn't matter so much, comes GOD IN AMERICA, a sweeping history of how religious faith has shaped America. Interweaving documentary footage, historical dramatizations...
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American Experience: Harry Truman(Available)
A farmer, a haber-dasher-gone-bankrupt, an unknown politician from Missouri - Harry Truman was the least prepared of all the men who had held the office of president of the United States. Yet he proved he was up to the job with a stubborn...
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(2 VHS)
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American Experience: Influenza 1918(Available)
Drawing on remarkable archival photographs, film footage and interviews with survivors and medical historians, Influenza 1918 tells the powerful story of the worst epidemic in American history that killed over 600,000 people.
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American Experience: Into the Deep(Available)
For two centuries, American whale oil lit the world -- illuminating and powering the start of the industrial revolution, and laying the groundwork for a truly global economy. This two-hour film will tell the riveting and extraordinary story...
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American Experience: John D. Rockefeller(Available)
For decades, the Rockefeller name was despised in America -- associated with John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s feared monopoly, Standard Oil. By the end of his life, Rockefeller had given away half his fortune -- but even his vast philanthropy could...
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