History
1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 340 and AMST 340 ) Born enslaved around 1800 in South Carolina, David Drake was a poet and potter who-despite extreme restrictions on enslaved Africans' literacy-learned to read and write. Tasked with making large…
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Vassar College · History
32.2% of Vassar College'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
8%Far left92–100
45%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
2%Center42–58
2%Center-right26–41
4%Right9–25
6%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
Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 381 ) This course follows the trajectory of the movement ot abolish slavery in the United States from the American Revolution to the end of the American Civil War. We follow the career of…
History
Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 175 ) This course critically explores the history and politics of South Africa in the twentieth century through the prism of the life, politics, and experiences of one of its most iconic…
Furthest-right subjects
History
1 unit(s) (Same as STS 247 ) This course explores the complex life and work of the iconic scientist of the 20th century. Using recent biographical studies and a wide range of original sources (in translation), Einstein's revolutionary…
History
1 unit(s) This course explores the Third Reich by locating it within the peculiar nature of German political culture resulting from late unification and rapid industrialization. Readings explore how and why the Nazis emerged as a mass party…
History
1 unit(s) This course explores three military initiatives in the nineteenth-century United States and interconnections among them: violent dispossession of Native peoples between the 1830s and the 1890s; the U.S.-Mexico War; and Confederate…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vassar College · History | bias_left_share | 32.2 | — | 87 | — |
| 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.