Brison D. Gooch (March 1, 1925 – November 25, 2014) was an American historian specializing in 19th century European history, especially Belgium and France.
[1][2] Born in Bar Harbor, Maine, his father Austin McLellan Gooch was a carpenter.
Gooch served in the U.S. Army in Germany and Belgium from 1945 to 1947; he attended the Nuremberg trials in 1945–1946.
He worked to reform the curriculum and expand graduate efforts as history department head at the University of Connecticut from 1969 to 1973 and at Texas A&M from 1973 to 1975.
He held a visiting appointment at Yale University, and was a Fulbright scholar in Belgium.