and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly, the celebrated Nast drew thousands of cartoons during the second half of the nineteenth century. Like many Northerners, Nast supported ...

It was his government contract supplying provisions to U.S. troops during the War of 1812 that Uncle Sam first inspired the ... and when the War of 1812 broke out, he secured an important contract ...

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 ...