History
History of African Americans from their origins in Africa to their current situation in the United States. Focuses on the institution of slavery, showing how it changed over time and how African American culture evolved; the ways in which…
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Yeshiva University · History
1.6% of Yeshiva University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.
0%35%
Where History courses fall
0%Far left92–100
6%Left75–91
25%Center-left59–74
31%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
13%Right9–25
25%Far right0–8
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
History
Historical survey of women’s experiences in the United States from the colonial era to the present; changes in the economic role of women; family life; changing ideals of womanhood; suffrage movement; and feminism.
History
Examination of the American economy of the 1920s and its weaknesses; the Depression and unemployment, and the measures undertaken by the New Deal to counteract their devastating impact; the emerging social forces that challenged traditional political and social structures.
Furthest-right subjects
History
Examines works by some of the major figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, such as Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Hume and Kant. Considers the institutional settings in which Enlightenment ideas took shape, the media through which…
History
Communal, economic, and cultural history of the Jews in Moslem lands in modern times. Prerequisite: JHIS 1002. 1485 The Holocaust 3 credits (same as HIST 2141) Fate of European Jewry between 1933 and 1945. Topics include the rise of the…
History
Women 2024-2026 The nature of Nazi anti-Semitism; the evolution of the Holocaust to the mass murder of Europe’s Jews; Jewish responses and the various rescue attempts, including non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews. 1501; 1505…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva University · History | bias_left_share | 1.6 | — | 64 | — |
| 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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