Annette Kolodny's In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012) is an in-depth discussion of the history of thinking about the Norse arrival in North America in relation to the orthodox version featuring Columbus's "discovery."

African American archaeology developed largely from the archaeology of plantations and the enslaved people who lived and worked on them. Theresa Singleton's "Archaeology of the plantation south: A review of approaches and goals" (Historical Archaeology 24(4):70-77, 1990) is still a useful concise summary of the field.

Michael Blakey, "Archaeology under blinding light of race" (Current Anthropology 61, supplement 22, 2020), provides a much more expansive discussion of the history of African American anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology. It is not easy to read, but it is worth the effort, in part because it conveys a real sense of the anger many African American scholars feel about how anthropologists and archaeologists have engaged with them and with African American history.