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Louisiana State University · History

0% of Louisiana State University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

0%35%
Louisiana State University: 0% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

8%Far left92–100
31%Left75–91
8%Center-left59–74
15%Center42–58
15%Center-right26–41
8%Right9–25
15%Far right0–8
13 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 4034 · Russia Since 1861100

History

Reaction and reform from 1861 to 1905; failure of parliamentary democracy amid war and revolution; Leninism and Stalinism; relaxation of totalitarian rule since Stalin’s death.

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HIST 4032 · The Balkans: 1879-Present83

History

Events leading up to and including World War I, problems of the inter-war period, World War II and rise and decline of Communism in Southeastern Europe.

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HIST 4079 · Women in American History78

History

Survey of political, social, economic and cultural development of American women from colonial times to present; topics include nineteenth century women’s rights movement, woman suffrage, women in civil rights movement, birth control, the…

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 4054 · The Age of Jackson: 1820-18600

History

Examination of democratization, economic transformation, party development, the reform movement, slavery and the sectional crisis.

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HIST 4130 · World War II0

History

Global crisis of the 1930s; Axis and Allied strategies; major military campaigns; great power diplomacy; life on the home-fronts; the Holocaust; espionage and resistance; the experience of combat; social, political and scientific consequences.

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HIST 4094 · Modern Japan17

History

From 1600 to the present; emphasis on historical and cultural roots of Japan’s modernization in the late 19th century and quest for empire in the 20th century; cultural and intellectual developments in modern Japan.

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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
Louisiana State University · Historybias_left_share0—97—
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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