The character has a specific meaning to the Black community. The post The Meaning Behind Uncle Sam’s Halftime Show Role Is Much Deeper Than You Think first appeared on Her Campus.

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 ...

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 ...

Sybrant Dykhouse III has walked in the Cascade Township Fourth of July parade as Uncle Sam for the past 50 years. His father, who was a fire chief, started the parade with his cousin in 1954.

The inspiration for Uncle Sam came from a man named Samuel Wilson, a meatpacker who lived in Troy. Originally born in Menotomy, MA (Arlington) in 1766, and he joined the Continental Army in 1781.