Jonathan Wood said he knew the TIME magazine photo shoot with his 27-year-old bald eagle named "Uncle Sam" and GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump was going to be difficult. On Wednesday ...

Uncle Sam has been busy ever since: consorting with Miss Liberty, exhorting young men to join the colors, lamenting the size of the national debt, even setting out in National Comics with a kid ...

Over the next few decades, as the country outgrew this rambunctious youngster, he was slowly edged out by the figure we now know as Uncle Sam, originally named after a meat magnate from New York ...