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Swarthmore College · History

10.8% of Swarthmore College's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Swarthmore College: 10.8% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
85%Center-left59–74
15%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
13 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 001Z · First-Year Seminar: Medieval Origins of Racial Capitalism73

History

The first few chapters of Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism - the book which introduced the concept of "racial capitalism" to the American academy and public culture - will provide the structure in this first year seminar for a deeper inquiry…

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HIST 031 · France in Algeria, France and Algerians, 1830-present72

History

As European states enact xenophobic migration policies and the children and grandchildren of migrants level demands for their rights in Paris and elsewhere, the imperial roots of contemporary European crises have never appeared more…

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HIST 053 · History of the Black Body65

History

Through this course, students will read a variety of historians' approaches to the study of the Black body from the earliest days of slavery through the present. Topics include representations of Black bodies in art and literature, Black…

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Furthest right

None. Swarthmore College History has 13 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
Swarthmore College · Historybias_left_share10.8—120—
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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