He wants you to learn about the symbol’s history. / swim ink 2 llc/Corbis Historical/Getty Images (Uncle Sam); Justin Dodd/Mental Floss (question mark) Uncle Sam—clad in red, white ...

Steve Darnall and Alex Ross created Uncle Sam in the hope that they’d never have to debate politics ever again. “It’s all on the page,” explains Darnall as we discuss the graphic novel’s ...

A group of people gathered in Troy, to celebrate the man known as Uncle Sam. The annual service took place at Oakwood Cemetery to commemorate the 258th birthday of Samuel Wilson of Troy ...

It’s also worth mentioning another local connection. Paul Halstead of The Toy Shop and Giocatollo fame, was involved in the ...

Uncle Sam is one tough old avatar. Cartoonists and designers of all stripes have relied on him as a handy symbol of the U.S. government for ages. He’s evolved in small ways—his costume has ...

"I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos," the pop star writes on ...

Here’s a timeline of when Swift has weighed in on U.S. politics. Swift first broke her political silence in 2018, when she ...

There were few strings attached: the U.S. Small Business Administration offered full guarantees to borrowers ... an ...

The true history of the lynching that begat the Civil Rights Movement began with the Mississippi gubernatorial election that ...

Trump reposted fan art depicting singer Taylor Swift, dressed as Uncle Sam, endorsing him for president ... are still waiting for another go at a full Senate vote. But these images can have ...

The second half of Season 7 of Outlander is still a few months off, but thanks to Sam Heughan’s recent Instagram, there is a ...

The championship series went the distance — a full five games before Portland ... It wasn’t until very recently I was made aware of all this “Uncle Sam” business. It seems to me that ...