History
Influence of politics on culture, society, government, and the military. The Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square. [3] (INT)
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Vanderbilt University · History
4.2% of Vanderbilt 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
6%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
30%Center-left59–74
19%Center42–58
1%Center-right26–41
10%Right9–25
8%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
History of Cuba. European conquest, the colonial period, independence, U.S. intervention, the Cuban Revolution, Cold War to present. Special consideration given to the global impact of the Cuban Revolution. [3] (INT)
History
Contentious topics in historical scholarship on Qing and twentieth-century China. Borderland studies, the New Qing History, and China-Europe Great Divergence. The tribute system, models of international order, colonialism and law, and the…
Furthest-right subjects
History
Atlantic World, fifteenth through nineteenth centuries. Emergence and expansion of the slave trade; encounters between peoples of African, American, and European descent; competing legal and economic imperial modes. Traditional…
History
Local studies of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust using the tools of digital humanities. Map-generation using Arc-GIS and data linking. [3] (INT)
History
The South's origins in European expansion; the rise of the plantation economy and society, and its identification with slavery; the differing experiences of whites and blacks, planters and nonplanters; the relationship of the region to the…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University · History | bias_left_share | 4.2 | — | 263 | — |
| 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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