Bureau of Disruption

All schools · Ivy League

Yale University · History

18.8% of Yale University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

0%35%
Yale University: 18.8% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
22%Left75–91
73%Center-left59–74
5%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
37 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

See it for yourself

Furthest left

HIST 108 · U.S. Colonial Empire82

History

The United States was born from a revolution against an empire. Since then, one of the most cherished pieces of national mythology is that the United States, while an incredibly powerful country, has never itself been an empire. But for…

See it for yourself →

HIST 419 · History of Psychology: Racism and Colonial Power82

History

This course introduces students to the history of psychology with a focus on racism and colonial power embedded in the "mind sciences." Students grapple with primary and secondary sources which prompt them to think critically about the past…

See it for yourself →

HIST 448 · Botanical Bodies: Plants, Medicine and Colonial Science79

History

Plants weave their way into every aspect of our lives. From the food that we eat to our growing obsession with houseplants, from the pharmaceutical industry to recent meditations on queerness and reproductive freedom, plants are…

See it for yourself →

Furthest right

None. Yale University History has 37 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
Yale University · Historybias_left_share18.8—197—
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.

Ask a question about Yale University · Make a school card