It’s absolutely history but just not Civil War history. This is the Charlottesville statue and it’s iconic of our contemporary far right nationalist problem. Imagine things like this being a part of an exhibit laying out the turmoil our country is going through.

Edit: A lot of key pieces of history are missing because people didn’t look to the future. I think some of it should have been carefully stored in a basement somewhere. Out of sight for at least 20 years.