Issue 9 December 1 2001 bluetyger main issue 9 intro about this magazine Fall into Winter Historic Numbers Lincoln Sketch boxes flyers flyers flyers spirits Editor: William J. Gibson email to the editor Made in Canada	Historic Numbers 8 of the United States first 12 Presidents were slaveholders American Slavery 1619-1877 by Peter Kolchin. Hill and Wang, NY 1993 At Verdun in World War One between February 21 and July 15 1916, the Germans and French fired 23 million artillery shells at each other. Over There: The United States in The Great War, 1917-1918 by Byron Farwell. WW Norton, NY 1999. 48,347 US M4 Sherman Tanks were built during World War II. World War II: A Visual Encyclopedia. General Editor John Keegan, PRC, London, 1999.