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Brown University · History

21.2% of Brown University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Brown University: 21.2% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
21%Left75–91
71%Center-left59–74
8%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
100 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 1457 · Understanding the Palestinians85

History

Palestinians are largely absent in narratives about the “Arab-Israeli Conflict.” This course introduces new scholarship that centers Palestinian experiences and agency within the larger thematics of capitalism, colonialism, nationalism, and…

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HIST 1032 · South Africa: Apartheid and After83

History

This course considers the most extreme form of settler colonial dispossession -- South African apartheid. We examine the ideological and capitalist foundations of economic, political, social, and territorial segregation. We also explore the…

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HIST 1554 · American Empire Since 189083

History

This survey of twentieth-century US history through the lens of racial capitalism and empire will focus on the United States as a settler state whose power also relies on overseas colonialism and free trade imperialism. Topics include:…

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Furthest right

None. Brown University History has 100 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
Brown University · Historybias_left_share21.2—471—
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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