History
Instructor Benjamin The Soviet Union, the longest lasting and most dramatic enactment of state socialism, drew scholarly attention from its sharpest free-market critics to its deepest communist admirers. This course introduces students to…
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19.3% of Davidson College'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
3%Far left92–100
28%Left75–91
32%Center-left59–74
15%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
10%Right9–25
12%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
Instructor McQuinn This course looks at the promises, failures, hopes and disappointments of the Soviet project through the lens of minority groups. What appeal did the communist ideology have to marginalized populations, both in the Soviet…
History
Instructor Chaudhuri Race, Caste and Inequality is a class that demonstrates how caste and race are particularly illuminating lenses to reconstruct history with a capital H, not just histories of caste and race. Specifically, the course…
Furthest-right subjects
History
Instructors Guasco, Nguyen, Stremlau This course will introduce students to advanced concepts in historical thinking and selected topics in nineteenth-century US history. Students will explore secondary literature and primary sources…
History
Instructor L. Henry According to a 2018 survey, over half of millennials have never heard of Auschwitz, the Nazi's most famous death and labor camp system. However, even Auschwitz represents just one of the myriad experiences that we now…
History
Instructor Guasco African American experience from the colonial period through the Reconstruction era. Topics include the slave trade, the institution of slavery, free blacks, slave revolts, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and African…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davidson College · History | bias_left_share | 19.3 | — | 140 | — |
| 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.