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Davidson College · History

19.3% of Davidson College's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Davidson College: 19.3% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
7%Left75–91
89%Center-left59–74
4%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
27 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HIS 269 · Race, Caste, & Inequality83

History

Instructor Chaudhuri Race, Caste and Inequality is a class that demonstrates how caste and race are particularly illuminating lenses to reconstruct history with a capital H, not just histories of caste and race. Specifically, the course…

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HIS 453 · Cold War Asians and Asian Americans78

History

Instructor Nguyen "Cold War Asians and Asian Americans" is a specialized course that discusses the interplay between Asian anticolonial nationalist movements and the development of a pan-Asian American political formation during the Cold…

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HIS 377 · History of Now: Capitalism & Crisis74

History

Instructors Chaudhuri Have you heard the terms "late capitalism", or "neoliberal capital" and wondered what they meant exactly, even as you perhaps felt you had a vague sense of their meaning in your own life? In this class, we make sense…

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Furthest right

None. Davidson College History has 27 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
Davidson College · Historybias_left_share19.3—140—
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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