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University of Alabama · History

4.6% of University of Alabama's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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University of Alabama: 4.6% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
17%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
17%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
6 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HY 339 · Race and Injustice in the Modern South75

History

A study of crime, punishment, and race in the American South from slavery through the rise of mass incarceration in the 21st century. Topics include slave patrols, convict lease system, lynching, the Lost Cause, white supremacy, the death…

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HY 354 · Southern Queer History67

History

Delving deep into the manuscript collections at the University of Alabama and Birmingham Public Library, students reconstruct the struggle for rights, visibility, and sexual equality for queer students at universities across Alabama.…

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HY 375 · Slavery and the Law in Colonial Latin America62

History

From the 16th to the 18th century, the Spanish empire was one of the most important early modern political, social, economic, and cultural centers of the nascent Atlantic World. This course aims at exploring at legal justifications of…

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Furthest right

None. University of Alabama History has 6 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
University of Alabama · Historybias_left_share4.6—131—
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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