Uncle Sam is an easily recognizable piece of wartime propaganda. And legend says he was based off a real person—though that may not actually be the case.

Books ‘Uncle Sam’ Was Hailed as a Comics Masterpiece, Then Left to Languish. It’s Been Reissued Just in Time for the Election. The 1997 comic, in which a bedraggled Uncle Sam battles for the ...

The lineage of Uncle Sam, benign personification of the nation, was again raised last week. Was this lean Yankee character in beaver hat and striped trousers who reflects the emotions of ...

The 30-foot statue started life in a chef’s hat, selling pizzas in Framingham, then got all star-spangled as Uncle Sam, reminding people to “Buy American” at the old Mutual Ford, before he ...

Uncle Sam is 100 years old. ... York Lantern in the mid-19th century symbolized America as a man with striped pants, a swallow-tail coat and stovepipe hat but clean-shaven.

Uncle Sam isn't the only symbol that U.S. artists and illustrators have used to convey political issues of the day. One of the earliest symbolic stand-ins for the United States was " Columbia ," a ...

— -- With his star-spangled top hat, steely-eyed gaze and finger pointed squarely at the nation’s heart, Uncle Sam is one of the most recognizable symbols of U.S. patriotism there is.