Little specializes in the history of colonial America, with emphasis on the history of women, gender and sexuality.

Little is the author of two award-winning books, “Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England” and “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright.” She is currently writing a book on the generation of women who came of age after the American Revolution as the first American ecologists called “Natural Women: Nature, Maternity, and Liberty after the Revolution.”

Little has appeared on the TLC show “Who Do You Think You Are,” to help Tom Bergeron understand more about his French Canadian roots, and with Jean Smart and Zachary Levi to discuss their ancestors who were among those accused of witchcraft in 1692.

She held fellowships at the Newberry Library, the Huntington Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society and Windsor Castle, and served on the Council of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. Little earned her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.