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Washington and Lee University · History

7.6% of Washington and Lee University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Washington and Lee University: 7.6% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

88%Center-left59–74

13%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

8 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

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HIST 359 · African American Intellectual History67

History

FDR: HU Humanities Distribution Since their earliest arrivals in the New World, African Americans crafted liberatory ideas as they articulated a desire for equality, justice, and self-determination. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth…

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HIST 268 · Building a Suburban Nation: Race, Class, and Politics in Postwar America65

History

FDR: HU Humanities Distribution Together, the overdevelopment of the suburbs and the underdevelopment of urban centers have profoundly shaped American culture, politics and society in the post-WWII period. This course examines the origins…

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HIST 236 · The Indigenous South63

History

FDR: HU Humanities Distribution This course is about the history of Indigenous people and nations in the Southeast from the pre-contact period to the present. Comprised of diverse peoples, speaking different languages, and with a range of…

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Furthest right

None. Washington and Lee University History has 8 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Washington and Lee University · History	bias_left_share	7.6	—	105	—
History	bias_left_share	8.3	7.9 – 8.7	17,232	—

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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