In May of 2017, as the world watched mammoth cranes in New Orleans lower a sixteen-foot-tall likeness of Robert E. Lee from a sixty-foot-tall marble column, few took note of the stately brick building behind the warring throngs of protestors and counter-protestors: Confederate Memorial Hall, home to the world’s second-largest collection of Confederate artifacts. Founded in 1891 as a joint family heirloom preservation center, veterans’ meeting hall, and museum, the modern visitation experience incorporates aspects of a traditional history museum, Antiques Roadshow, and a Veterans of Foreign Wars post. In the past twenty years, mounting discomfort with sympathetic portrayals of the Confederacy has presented new pressures for revision, leading to a seemingly Sisyphean effort to reconcile conflicting historical forces and audiences. Yet nineteenth-century photographs of the museum and itemizations of its contents indicate that its collection and curation have remained largely unchanged.