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Wesleyan University · History

23.4% of Wesleyan University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Wesleyan University: 23.4% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
32%Left75–91
64%Center-left59–74
4%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
56 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 310 · Treaty People: Indigenous Diplomacy and Settler Duplicity, 1600-192190

History

Indigenous nations have engaged in diplomatic relationships with settler states from the time of contact. Many of the earliest treaties retain cultural and legal force today. The Two Row Wampum in the 17th century, the Peace and Friendship…

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HIST 244Z · Imagining the End: Neoliberalism and the Arts86

History

Many of us now like to paraphrase the philosopher Frederic Jameson when he argued that it has become "easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." As the recent deluge of post-apocalyptic movies and documentaries…

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HIST 397 · United States Overseas Empire86

History

The United States is an empire: an empire that expands beyond the North American continent into many islands across the globe. From Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Atlantic to American Samoa and Guam in the Pacific, the US…

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Furthest right

None. Wesleyan University History has 56 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
Wesleyan University · Historybias_left_share23.4—239—
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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