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University of Minnesota · History

7.9% of University of Minnesota'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 Minnesota: 7.9% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

4%Far left92–100
37%Left75–91
19%Center-left59–74
15%Center42–58
6%Center-right26–41
8%Right9–25
12%Far right0–8
52 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 3875W · Comparative Race and Ethnicity in US History92

History

This writing-intensive course examines the racial history of modern America to learn from and engage with what historians enmeshed in ethnic studies do. These historians examine the systematic and coordinated exercises of power called race…

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HIST 5265 · 20th-Century Russia: The Collapse of Imperial Russia, the Revolutions, and the Soviet Regime92

History

Analysis of the factors that led to the collapse of the tsarist regime; discussion of the 1917 revolution, the evolution of the Soviet regime and the collapse of Soviet communism. Emphasis on the role of nationalities and the rise of the Commonwealth of independent states.

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HIST 3468 · Social Change in Modern China88

History

Opium War and opening of Treaty Ports in 19th century. Missionary activity and cultural influence. Changes in education system. Women's movement. Early industrialization. Socialism/collectivization after 1949. Industrialization of Taiwan. PRC's entry into world trading system.

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 3725 · The Holocaust by Bullets: Poland & the Early Stages of Genocide0

History

Between 1941 and 1944, thousands of executions occurred in the Soviet republics. More than 80% of the victims were shot, giving the name "Holocaust by Bullets" to the extermination of Jews in the East. This course explores the history and…

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HIST 3727 · History of the Holocaust0

History

Study of 1933-1945 extermination of six million Jews and others by Nazi Germany on basis of race. European anti-Semitism. Implications of social Darwinism and race theory. Perpetrators, victims, onlookers, resistance. Theological responses of Jews and Christians.

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HIST 3729 · Nazi Germany and Hitler's Europe0

History

Comprehensive exploration of Third Reich. Students will examine How the Nazis came to power, transformations of 1930s, imposition of racial politics against Jews/others, nature of total war. Students read historical accounts, memoirs, state documents, view films.

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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
University of Minnesota · Historybias_left_share7.9—190—
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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