An Arlee woman is behind bars after prosecutors say she beat her uncle to death with an aluminum baseball bat on Friday. Authorities charged 41-year-old Darnell Reevis with felony deliberate ...

At last month’s arraignment in Atlanta, a guy in an Uncle Sam costume said: “The Constitution’s my birth certificate, socialism’s my death certificate.” Onlookers, clueless, asked who ...

An Ohio man enraged over a game of pool beat his uncle to death with a baseball bat, police said. Cameron Blake Goodrich, 34, was arrested late Tuesday after his uncle, Dino Goodrich, 59, was found… ...

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.

Uncle Sam, the personification of the United States, was "born" on Sept. 7, 1813, and inspired by New York businessman Samuel Wilson, who provided rations to troops in the War of 1812.

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 ...

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 ...

Uncle Sam is 100 years old. At least, that's the age of the most iconic image of that famous American symbol. In the past century, there have been all sorts of depictions of Uncle Sam, but when ...

Uncle Sam is linked to Samuel Wilson (1766-1854), a meat packer from Troy, New York, who supplied barrels of beef to the U.S. Army during the war with Great Britain.