'Uncle Sam' points an accusing finger of moral responsibility in a recruitment poster for the American forces during World War I. MPI / Getty Images.

Since his “birth” in 1813, Uncle Sam has appeared in political cartoons, army recruitment posters and magazine covers. He has participated in nearly every historical and cultural event of the ...

THE MOST FAMOUS IMAGE OF UNCLE SAM WAS FOR A RECRUITMENT POSTER. A war often means recruitment drives, and recruitment drives need art to bring in recruits.

Uncle Sam is an easily recognizable piece of wartime propaganda. ... The Origins of the Uncle Sam “I Want You” Poster. The ...

This poster by Emily Bawn and Brandon Schaefer casts Oroku Saki in the role of a star-spangled military recruiter. If you join up, you get to listen to all the MC Hammer you want. You can pick up ...

One of the most prominent representations of Uncle Sam in popular culture is a poster of him pointing at the viewer with the words "I Want YOU," used for U.S. military recruitment initiatives.

During the Civil War, Uncle Sam symbolized the Union. An 1862 lithograph, “Yankee Volunteers Marching into Dixie,” depicts an entire army of identical Sams, clean-shaven and smiling as they ...

But most people associate Uncle Sam with a later period thanks to an iconic 20th-century poster. That now-famous image was originally created by artist James Montgomery Flagg in 1916.