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Lehigh University · History

3.0% of Lehigh University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Lehigh University: 3.0% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
20%Left75–91
25%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
5%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
30%Far right0–8
20 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 136 · Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction88

History

American abolitionism and the origins of the Civil War; the Second American Revolution; Reconstruction and its sequel.

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HIST 112 · Takin' It to the Streets: The Global Sixties83

History

Welcome to the Days of Hope and Rage. The Global Sixties explores a watershed decade of unprecedented political activism and backlash, focusing on social movements (free speech, students, civil rights/Black Power, feminisms,…

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HIST 450 · 19th Century Paris and the Invention of Modernity83

History

This course considers the dramatic destruction and rebuilding of the city of Paris in the decades after 1850 and how changes in the built environment shaped social relations, political authority and cultural expression. Topics include the…

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 041 · The Making and Breaking of the United States0

History

Native American cultures; European settlement; development of slavery and free labor systems; the Revolution; founding of the new nation; 19th century social, economic, cultural, and political development; Civil War.

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HIST 154 · The Holocaust: History and Meaning0

History

The Nazi Holocaust in its historical, political and religious setting. Emphasis upon the moral, cultural and theological issues raised by the Holocaust.

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HIST 332 · Slavery and the American South0

History

The emergence and demise of the "peculiar institution" of African American slavery in British North America and the Old South. African background; colonial beginnings; 19th century-slave community; the ruling race and proslavery ideology;…

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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
Lehigh University · Historybias_left_share3.0—66—
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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