History
Examines how and why communism collapsed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Places the events of 1989/1991, usually considered sudden and shocking, within the political, economic, social, and cultural context of the surrounding decades…
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Harvard University · History
15.2% of Harvard 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
9%Far left92–100
37%Left75–91
29%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
3%Center-right26–41
6%Right9–25
9%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 explores a history of radical responses to a world system dependent on war, empire, enslavement, and genocide. Guided by the writings of such scholars as W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, Walter Rodney, and Cedric…
History
This graduate seminar is designed as a close and cooperative framework for reading new interpretative literature on Marx, with an emphasis on philosophical questions and contemporary debates concerning, e.g., Marxist theory and…
Furthest-right subjects
History
This course uses Austrian literature to think through some of the most pressing questions of modern European (and, specifically, Austrian) history. We will read some of the greatest novels and novellas in modern German- speaking literature…
History
A theoretically informed and historically grounded enquiry into the relationship between democracy and authoritarianism in colonial and postcolonial South Asia within a global comparative context. Close attention will be paid to ideas and…
History
This conference course, for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, will examine the significance of fascism both past and present. We will explore its historical emergence, its variations across time and space, and the question of…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard University · History | bias_left_share | 15.2 | — | 105 | — |
| 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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