History
The story of the United States is built on the inclusion or omission of violence: from the genocide of Native Americans to slavery to imperial conquest, from “private” pain of women to the nationalized pain of soldiers. This lecture course…
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Northwestern University · History
4.1% of Northwestern 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
0%Far left92–100
20%Left75–91
40%Center-left59–74
40%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Furthest left
History
The setting: North America, 1400 to 1865. The characters: Indigenous, African, European, Asian, and their descendants; enslaved, free, and inbetween; genders of all kinds. The plot: full of tragedy and triumph and terror and twists,…
History
Women and gender in American life, taking an intersectional approach and focusing on three themes: women and reproductive health, women and work, and women and social movements. Since 1865.
Furthest right
None. Northwestern University History has 5 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University · History | bias_left_share | 4.1 | — | 123 | — |
| 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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