History
Jewish encounter with Marxism and communism; social, political, cultural, and artistic aspects of Jewish life; Soviet Jews and the Russian empire: patterns of survival, accommodation, and interaction, 1917-2014.
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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
9%Far left92–100
31%Left75–91
17%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
11%Center-right26–41
9%Right9–25
3%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 the history of the Soviet Union from its beginnings after the revolutions of 1917 to its collapse in 1991. Special topics will include Lenin and the Bolsheviks; the rise and rule of Stalin; the Great Terror; the Second…
History
Revolutions have changed peoples’ worlds across Latin America since the beginning of modern history. In Haiti a slave revolution ushered in a Black republic; in Mexico a peasant revolution founded one of the most enduring one-party states;…
Furthest-right subjects
History
Between 1787 and 1848, the United States transformed from a precarious sliver of states to a transcontinental empire. Political participation rose alongside slavery, Indigenous expulsion, and America’s first capitalist “millionaires.” From…
History
This course introduces students to the history of modern science and medicine from 1800 to the present day. Focus is on the revolutionary transformation wrought by science and medicine on social and political life in Europe, America, and…
History
Italy from the Enlightenment to the present, concentrating on the movement for unification, the world wars, Mussolini and fascism, the postwar economic miracle, and terrorism.
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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