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Emory University · History

3.4% of Emory University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Emory University: 3.4% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

11%Far left92–100
19%Left75–91
22%Center-left59–74
22%Center42–58
3%Center-right26–41
14%Right9–25
11%Far right0–8
37 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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

HIST 420W · Stalin & Stalinism100

History

Jr/Sr Colloquium. This class will study not simply the rise and rule of Iosef Stalin-one of the Twentieth Century's most sanguinary rulers-but also the deep social, political and cultural revolutions he wrought that still shape post-Soviet Russia and the world.

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HIST 333 · Russia in War and Revolution96

History

This course will concentrate on the causes, course and consequences of the Russian Revolution from 1900 to the formation of the Soviet Union and Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924.

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HIST 251 · Intimacy and Terror: Stalinism92

History

Explores the repressions of the Soviet totalitarianism through the experience of those who lived through it. Taking a humanistic approach, this course will focus on autobiography, memoirs, letters, and diaries to explore average Soviet citizens' interior life during Stalinism.

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 342 · The Old South0

History

Examines the South from its colonial origins to the Civil War, with emphasis on the social, political, and economic development of a slave society.

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HIST 362 · History of the Caribbean0

History

Development of the major islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, from colonial times to the present. Emphasizes evolution of plantation societies, slavery and race relations, international rivalries, economic dependence,…

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HIST 362W · History of the Caribbean0

History

Development of the major islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, from colonial times to the present. Emphasizes evolution of plantation societies, slavery and race relations, international rivalries, economic dependence,…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Emory University · Historybias_left_share3.4—148—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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