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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.

The character of Uncle Sam has been widely used in U.S. government propaganda to encourage support for various policies and military efforts over the years, ...

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 ...

Ross and Darnall’s Uncle Sam was a particularly dark deconstruction of the original concept. Their take on the character was a vagrant, speaking in sound-bites and haunted by visions of America ...

While the Chehalis Tribe did purchase the Uncle Sam sign’s property from Hamilton Corner LLC for $2.5 million, it did not ...

Instead of using the company’s best-known characters, the duo wanted to pluck out an obscure, short-lived World War II superhero that DC had acquired the rights to in the 1950s called Uncle Sam.