A man's death has been ruled an accident after he lit a firework off of his Uncle Sam top hat on the Fourth of July, a South Carolina coroner told USA TODAY Monday. Allen Ray McGrew, 41 ...

In a horror Fourth of July accident, a man dressed as Uncle Sam died after lighting a firework off his costume hat while smoking a cigarette. Allen Ray McGrew, 41, from South Carolina, was the ...

Was Uncle Sam a real ... the facial hair and top hat he’s commonly depicted with—but the artist used his own likeness as inspiration. His version of Uncle Sam ran on the cover of the July ...

Uncle Sam, you’ve gotta change with the times. The skinny, venerable old gentleman in the red, white and blue suit and starry hat who has symbolized the United States in everything from ...

The story is told impressionistically; the character of Uncle Sam—if you’re picturing the one in the famous James Montgomery Flagg painting of a bearded man in a star-spangled top hat pointing ...