On the responce to Foner, Jenson, and Becker

       In the third section of Becker he says on page 233, "The least the historian can do with any historical fact is to select and affirm it. [...] to give them a certain place in a certain pattern of ideas, and this alone is sufficient to give them a special meaning." Personally I semi-agree with this statement that some historian do pick and chose which ideas are important to include to piece together history, but there might be other facts that have to do with that time line that get left behind. This shows bias when record history.
        In the Jensen article he wrote, "students are typically taught a sanitized version of history in which the inherent superiority and benevolence of the United States is rarely challenged." I do think it is right to teach history in this light when you are teaching children at the ages of 12 and under, but those kids have to wake up and smell the coffee of the real picture of the united states the US isn't as great as everyone thinks. There is so much left hidden to present a certain view of the U.S. It's when you get to High School and even at the extreme College you see what the U.S. was and is like. This view should not be clouded it should be clear and broad casted out so people can see the real history of the United States from East coast to West coast from the Revolution to the Present.
         In the article by Foner, he mentions how the U.S. failed to understand the religion of Islam. This is true in a sense that the government does know somethings about Islam, but the people of the U.S. don't know as much as they should neither do they read up of watch on the news that shows what is going on in the world. Everyone is fixed on the news in the U.S. they fail to realize  that news happening somewhere else can effect us and our country and the world. I bet that there are some that watch the news but didn't know that the Taliban or as they like to be called the "Freedom Fighters" blew up and destroyed the  Buddha's of Bamiyan  in Afghanistan.Those remarkable sculptures Were History dating back to the 6th century, and they were destroyed in a snap by the Taliban. A marvel of History and Art and Religious meaning all Destroyed! These thing are not talked about or well known here in the U.S. only to those who have interest in Art and History know about it. It is a big Change in History for people everywhere we are lucky there are still pictures of these wonderful works of Religious art on the Internet be preserved.  So History is not all just about one country its the World. If one thing happens there it effects everywhere.
         In responding to some one's article i chose Mary. She mentions the “the history we teach [must be] a candid appraisal of our own society’s strengths and weaknesses, not simply an exercise in self-celebration – a conversation with the entire world, not a complacent dialogue with ourselves.” which is the last quote in Foner's article. she mentions that, "Only learning the history of one’s own greatness seriously handicaps the development of the society that teaches history that way. Not only will it be impossible for that society to understand events such as terrorist attacks, but it deprives that society of intellectual richness." I  agree with her. History will be blah if one only teaches it without interpretation and yes your society will not be rich in culture if there is no personality to it. It would be as blah as a blank sheet of paper with small scribbles on it rather that a artists masterpiece.