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Texas A&M University · History

1.1% of Texas A&M University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Texas A&M University: 1.1% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

8%Far left92–100
8%Left75–91
34%Center-left59–74
16%Center42–58
8%Center-right26–41
13%Right9–25
13%Far right0–8
38 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

HIST 210 · Introduction to Russian History100

History

Russian history, culture and society from origins to the present; rise of the Russian Empire; autocracy; modernization without liberalization; reforms, reaction, revolution; development of Communist regime; continuity from Imperial to…

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HIST 340 · Global Communism - Its Rise, Fall and Legacies96

History

History of communism and the movements and states it inspired across the globe; communism’s intellectual origins and development throughout the world; everyday life; state violence and communism at war; race, gender, nationalism and…

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HIST 412 · Russia's Long Twentieth Century - The Soviet Experiment and Beyond92

History

Historical examination of the late Russian Empire; 1917 revolutions; building the world's first socialist society; Stalinism and political terror; Great Patriotic War; Cold War; reforming the Soviet system; socialist stagnation; the…

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 300 · Blacks in the United States, 1607-18770

History

Blacks in the United States from the colonial period to 1877; the slave trade, slavery, free blacks and the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on blacks. Prerequisite: Junior or senior classification. Cross Listing: AFST 300/HIST 300.

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HIST 308 · History of American Indians in the U.S. South0

History

Examination of the role of indigenous populations in the history and formation of the U.S. South; cultural values and social practices; impact of European exploration and African slavery; trade patterns, imperial wars, and removal policies.…

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HIST 346 · History of South Africa0

History

Selected themes in the history of South Africa from the African Iron Age to the Apartheid regime; history of race relations in the 19th and 20th centuries and the rise of a modern industrial state. Cross Listing: AFST 346/HIST 346.

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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
Texas A&M University · Historybias_left_share1.1—185—
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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