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University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill · History

2.1% of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: 2.1% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

2%Far left92–100
23%Left75–91
26%Center-left59–74
23%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
11%Right9–25
15%Far right0–8
53 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 477 · Revolution in Russia, 1900-1930100

History

A close study of Russia's age of revolution from the reign of the last tsar to the turbulent Stalin Revolution of 1929, with emphasis on the revolutions of 1917.

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HIST 220 · The Olympic Games: A Global History83

History

Course uses the history of the modern Olympic Games (1896-present) to explore both global sport and the history of international relations. Topics include sport and the Cold War; terrorism; human rights; the anti-apartheid movement; and…

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HIST 248 · Guerrillas and Counterinsurgencies in Latin America83

History

This course examines the leftist guerrilla movements that swept Latin America and the Caribbean during the latter half of the 20th century. Students will analyze the origins, trajectories, and legacies of these insurgencies, paying…

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 262 · History of the Holocaust: The Destruction of the European Jews0

History

Anti-Semitism; the Jews of Europe; the Hitler dictatorship; evolution of Nazi Jewish policy from persecution to the Final Solution; Jewish response; collaborators, bystanders, and rescuers; aftermath.

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HIST 278 · The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade0

History

Focused on one of the most tragic and horrifying phenomena in world history, this course examines the Atlantic slave trade and its demographic, economic, political, and cultural impact on four continents over three centuries. Through…

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HIST 279 · Modern South Africa0

History

Beginning with the discovery of gold and diamonds in the mid-19th century and reaching to the present, this course considers colonialism, industrialization, social change, and political protest in South Africa, with particular attention to…

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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
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill · Historybias_left_share2.1—330—
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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