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Cornell University · History

17.6% of Cornell University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Cornell University: 17.6% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
10%Left75–91
71%Center-left59–74
19%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
21 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 3436 · History of the Cops: Racialized Policing in the US83

History

The course will study the history of policing and race in the US. Beginning with the origins of American policing in a settler-colonial society, it will study the way whiteness emerged as an identity that depended on the control of both…

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HIST 2955 · Socialism in America78

History

"Why no socialism in America?" Scholars and activists have long pondered the relative dearth (compared to other industrialized societies) of sustained, popular, anticapitalist activity in the United States. Sure, leftist movements in the…

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HIST 1985 · American History from 1500 to 180074

History

On the eve of the American Revolution Britain administered 26 colonies—not just the 13 that would become the United States. British North America's dramatic struggle for independence has led many history textbooks to read the revolution…

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Furthest right

None. Cornell University History has 21 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
Cornell University · Historybias_left_share17.6—119—
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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