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Indiana University-Bloomington · History

2.3% of Indiana University-Bloomington's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Indiana University-Bloomington: 2.3% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
60%Center-left59–74
40%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
5 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-A 263 · Mammy to Michelle: Black Women's History67

History

Introduces the key debates in African-American Women's History, examines how race and gender have constrained black women's lives, and explores how black women have battled to overcome barriers.

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HIST-A 394 · Wenches, Witches, and Welfare Queens: Images of Black Women in U.S. History63

History

This course examines when, where, how, and why particular stereotypes about African American women were created, and by whom, and how black women grappled with these images and ideas and struggled to create lives and images that reflected…

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HIST-A 279 · The History of the Latinx Midwest60

History

References to the Midwest as "the heartland" in popular culture, national politics, and mass media evoke a romanticized regional past where the descendants of European immigrants populated small-towns and family farms. This course will…

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Furthest right

None. Indiana University-Bloomington History has 5 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
Indiana University-Bloomington · Historybias_left_share2.3—217—
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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