Author Pauline Hopkins produced work in a variety of genres: short stories, novels, a musical, a primer of facts. Like other African Americans of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, she engaged with the history of the Nile Valley before the discipline of Egyptology was firmly established in the sphere of higher education in the US. Her serialized novel Of One Blood, published in 1902 and 1903, draws on a variety of sources, such as the English historian George Rawlinson, to tell a fictionalized story set in the contemporary present of the Upper Nile and to address issues related to the ancient past of that region. Her main character, Reuel, embodies links across time—ancient and contemporary—and space—the United States and the Nile River Valley. Through him, she shows the power and relevance of ancient history to contemporary life.

作家宝琳·霍普金斯 (Pauline Hopkins) 创作了多种体裁的作品：短篇小说、小说、音乐剧、事实入门。与 18 世纪和 19 世纪初的其他非裔美国人一样，在埃及学学科在美国高等教育领域牢固确立之前，她就参与了尼罗河谷的历史研究。她的连载小说《一血》出版于 1902 年和 1903 年，利用各种来源，例如英国历史学家乔治·罗林森，讲述了一个以上尼罗河当代为背景的虚构故事，并解决了与该地区古代历史相关的问题。她的主角 Reuel 体现了跨越时间——古代和现代——以及空间——美国和尼罗河流域的联系。通过他，她展示了古代历史与当代生活的力量和相关性。