Uncle Sam was based on a real person—at least ... Nast is credited with giving the character the facial hair and top hat he’s commonly depicted with—but the artist used his own likeness ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Flagg's Uncle Sam was a gray-haired man with steely eyes, gray hair and beard, wearing a star-spangled American flag top hat. He's often shown in rolled-up shirtsleeves in a feisty pose with ...

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 ...

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 ...

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A man who has played the role of Uncle Sam for the past five decades is passing on his star-spangled hat. Sybrant Dykhouse III has walked in the Cascade Township ...

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 ...