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Washington University in St. Louis · History

20.8% of Washington University in St. Louis's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Washington University in St. Louis: 20.8% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

5%Far left92–100
23%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
3%Center42–58
3%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
39 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

L22 3663 · Caste: Globalization, Sexuality and Race94

History

Be it sati or enforced widowhood, arranged or love marriage, the rise of national leaders like Indira Gandhi and Kamala Harris, or the obsession with "fair" skin, caste shapes possibilities and perceptions for billions. In this class we…

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L22 4154 · Decolonization to Globalization: How to End an92

History

Empire The conventional markers of the twentieth century - imperialism, decolonization and globalization - are acutely compromised if we mobilize gender and sexuality as modes of analysis. In this course we bring questions of sexual…

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L22 2910 · Racism and Antiracism82

History

When President Obama was elected, it ignited a debate about whether America had finally become "post-racial." This assertion was belied by an entrenched underclass of Blacks and others from immigrant backgrounds; by the regular killing of…

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Furthest right

L22 357 · All Measures Short of War28

History

This course focuses on the return of great power competition in the 21st century. In particular, it examines the security challenges facing the United States in the form of strategic competition from revisionist states (Russia and China)…

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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
Washington University in St. Louis · Historybias_left_share20.8—183—
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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