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Stanford University · History

10.6% of Stanford University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Stanford University: 10.6% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
8%Left75–91
83%Center-left59–74
8%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
36 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HISTORY 205C · Global Racial Capitalism (HISTORY 305C)85

History

From as early as the sixteenth century to our present moment, capitalism has been a central part of modern world history. The history of capitalism is not solely one of wealth and development, but also one of extraction and exploitation. It…

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HISTORY 256C · Crime and Punishment in American History75

History

This course engages scholarship on the history of crime and punishment in America from the colonial period to the recent past. Readings consist of some theory, a handful of primary sources, and mostly secondary readings on such topics as:…

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HISTORY 284G · The Neo-Imperial Middle East75

History

This course begins with the withdrawal of the European empires from the Middle East in the wake of World War II and the ascendance of the United States (and to a lesser extent the Soviet Union) in the region. We will follow these…

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Furthest right

None. Stanford University History has 36 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
Stanford University · Historybias_left_share10.6—340—
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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