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American University · History
5.1% of American University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.
0%35%
Where History courses fall
6%Far left92–100
10%Left75–91
31%Center-left59–74
17%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
13%Right9–25
23%Far right0–8
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
History
This course treats the history of the Soviet Union (1917-1991), seeking to explain how this civilization arose, survived, and ultimately fell, with particular attention to the history of communism as an idea. Readings help give a sense of…
History
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics including Russian intellectual history, World War I and the end of empires, the Russian Revolution, and Russian film history. Crosslist: HIST-645 . Repeatable for credit with different topic.
Furthest-right subjects
History
This course explores the nationalizing successor states that appeared between Berlin and Moscow after World War I shattered the Austro-Hungarian, German, Russian, and Ottoman empires that had previously ruled the region’s…
History
This course explores the legacies Hitler left for Europe: a broken, divided continent traumatized by apocalyptic devastation, extreme ideological intolerance, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Emphasis is given to the Nuremberg trials, the…
History
The political, social, and economic conditions that made it possible for Hitler to take power. The nature of Nazi rule. Emphasis on World War II and the Holocaust. Crosslist: HIST-618 . Usually Offered: spring.
Why this number, in plain words
Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.
Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.
- Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American University · History | bias_left_share | 5.1 | — | 156 | — |
| History | bias_left_share | 8.3 | 7.9 – 8.7 | 17,232 | — |
- Formula
- 100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
- Interval
- Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
- Model / prompt / snapshot
- gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
- Metric caveats
- Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.
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