Voices | Brooks Holcomb | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/cholcomb23/activity/ Activity feed for Brooks Holcomb. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:12:56 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 c443c131e43d95c4fbfa45fc66786a75 Brooks Holcomb wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3919 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 15:28:56 +0000 Q: How does the Haitian Constitution reconcile its ideals of liberty and freedom with the formation of an Empire led by a singular monarch?

The Haitian constitution unsurprisingly emphasizes freedom and […]

]]> 0694093f008d5688f71b9c0024826bb0 Brooks Holcomb commented on the post, The Truth of the Aztec Religion, on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/2019/09/24/the-truth-of-the-aztec-religion/#comment-57 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:01:57 +0000 I think this is a great research topic, because I’ve always wondered about the reality of the Aztec religion in particular, since in a lot of modern and historical descriptions it’s depicted as excessively violent […]

]]> 8ecc9966691561e1cc71cec63632fe2e Brooks Holcomb commented on the post, Research, on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/2019/09/25/research-5/#comment-56 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:00:03 +0000 I like this idea a lot. I think it would be really interesting to contemplate the motivations behind native peoples aiding the Spanish and Portugese in their colonial ambitions, and how well they understood the […]

]]> e7fee042923a566c134e4dbfe44768da Brooks Holcomb commented on the post, Sources and Ideas, on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/2019/09/25/sources-and-ideas/#comment-55 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:58:05 +0000 I think this is a really cool idea. I’d definitely be interested to see the evolution of how maps of the Americas evolved as more land was ‘discovered’ by Europeans, and how it advanced to include the larger land […]

]]> a40c349d31a40d7d85ac37b90454bcb5 Brooks Holcomb wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3742 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:47:42 +0000 My research will focus on the independence movements in the viceroyalties of New Granada and Peru leading up to, during and following the Napoleonic Wars and the invasion of Spain in Europe. I want to mostly focus […]

]]> 9917fa383f2aa4bbc872c9171c32bf34 Brooks Holcomb wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3685 Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:00:11 +0000 My first idea for a research question is: how did new national identities emerge from the Spanish colonial viceroyalties of Latin America prior to and during the Napoleonic Wars, and what motivated the large-scale […]

]]> 7f303e05d4d058ef6ebf421a3cefe018 Brooks Holcomb wrote a new post on the site Colonial Latin America http://cla2019.voices.wooster.edu/?p=3596 Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:23:19 +0000 This semester, I want to learn more in general about Latin America and the history of its colonial past – I have never really taken a history class that covered this area of the world and its past in depth, d […]

]]> c9c1d2044878c80d94b1acc436ac8a05 Brooks Holcomb became a registered member https://voices.wooster.edu/activity/p/5734/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:01:37 +0000 0