One history that incorporates archaeology (by a "...Pulitzer
Prize-winning biographer of FDR, Winston Churchill, and Somerset
Maugham") "Wilderness at Dawn The Settling of the North American
Continent" by Ted Morgan, published by Simon and Schuster, c) 1993 is
interesting incorporating archaeology:

"Concentrating on those previously ignored by "polite histories"
(ordinary settlers, unknown soldiers, scalawags, pioneer women,
slaves, and Native Americans), Morgan uses scenes and dialogue from
actual letters, journals, and diaries to recreate the odysseys,
adventures, human dramas, and the inhuman suffering that shaped
America." from the inside front jacket cover.
...
"Enriched by Ted Morgan's own visits to most of the sites he
describes, enlivened by the actual words of characters such as
circuit-riding minister Charles Woodmason, the freed slave Thomas
Jeremiah, the frontiersman Christopher Gist and the plantation
manager,Eliza Lucas, Wilderness at Dawn is a lively world of rich
historical storytelling and adventure." closing paragraph in the
inside back jacket.

Sort of like Gordon Parks' film "Leadbelly" putting real faces on
historical records, and rescuing "blacks in American cinema"

George Myers