Recently published was a global history of newspaper cartoon figures as representatives of nations in the past few centuries. Depicted were leading figures in America and Britain, and other Emperors, Kaisers and Kings around the world, including many known figures such the New York City Hall bosses; old relics from the Revolutionary Wars getting in the way of progress; the first immigrants, the Irish, depicted as ugly little men with their pipes and funny caps, building the new Erie Canal to open up America.

These cartoons touch on an important and little noted aspect of the evolution of American antique history as a beacon of light and hope to the oppressed or sympathetic around the globe. The cartoon book does not mention, but we shall, and already learned the wrong common history that the label Uncle Sam seems to have originated during the War of 1812, when an elderly supplier name Sam stamped U.S. On food products going to the soldiers.

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