Edward Deming Andrews (March 6, 1894 – June 6, 1964) was an American historian, educator, curator, and preeminent authority on the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, best known as the Shakers.

[1] Born into a working-class family in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Andrews received a BA from Amherst College in 1916 and a PhD in education from Yale University in 1930.

He taught high-school English and social studies from 1920 to 1927 and worked as curator of history at the New York State Museum from 1931 to 1933.

[3] From 1941 to 1956, Andrews taught at Scarborough Day School, in Scarborough-on-Hudson, New York, where he served as dean and history department chair.

His wife and research collaborator, Faith Andrews (née Young), completed and posthumously published several of his monographs on Shakerism.