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Hamilton College · History

11.4% of Hamilton College's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Hamilton College: 11.4% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
8%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
12 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 249 · Architectures of Occupation and Resistance78

History

What does the architecture of buildings and cities tell us about systematic oppression and political control? What options for resistance exist in structures of occupation and dispossession? This course examines how the design of the built…

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HIST 240 · Race, Gender, and Empire in the 20th Century United States75

History

This course examines race, gender, and empire as closely linked systems of power and knowledge in the twentieth-century United States. In addition to demonstrating how US imperialism has shaped racial categories in American society (and…

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HIST 313 · Agriculture and Empire in the Global South75

History

Traces the growth of capital-intensive farming around the world, alongside histories of colonialism and resistance, with a focus on Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific. Students will combine approaches from environmental history,…

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Furthest right

None. Hamilton College History has 12 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
Hamilton College · Historybias_left_share11.4—105—
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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