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University of Notre Dame · History

6.9% of University of Notre Dame'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 Notre Dame: 6.9% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
4%Left75–91
76%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
25 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HIST 34609 · Imperial America 1845- Present75

History

Taught at a host institution. The United States is a nation born of revolutionary struggle against an imperial power, yet its core concept of human emancipation was founded upon the enslavement of Africans and the expropriation of native…

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HIST 34605 · The Romish Empire? British and Irish Catholic Imperialists in the Early Modern Atlantic73

History

This course uses artefacts and English translations of multilingual archives to introduce students to recusant British and Irish Catholic imperialism in the early modern Americas c. 1500-1776. Though the course focuses on Catholic…

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HIST 30027 · Appalachia: Land and People72

History

This course tells the history of Appalachia through humans' relationships with the natural environment. The class starts in geologic time with the formation of the mountains and spools forward through ebb and flow of Native American…

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Furthest right

None. University of Notre Dame History has 25 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Notre Dame · Historybias_left_share6.9—360—
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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