It was his government contract supplying provisions to U.S. troops during the War of 1812 that Uncle Sam first inspired the larger-than-life caricature. But Wilson's service to the U.S. started in ...

The flyers, which were found in Ludlow, Fort Wright and Fort Mitchell, depict a cartoon of Uncle Sam kicking a family with five members, including two young kids and a baby. Uncle Sam is also ...

Uncle Sam didn’t really become a household name until Thomas Nast’s sketches in Harper’s Weekly in the late 1860s and ’70s, when Nast made him a hero of the Union cause. An 1869 cartoon by ...

Along with thoughts of beer and fireworks, Uncle Sam generally comes to mind around ... name apparently evolved from a Revolutionary War cartoon character named Brother Jonathan, a moralistic ...