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ACTION ALERT: Ask Your Representative to Fix BUILD America 250
Congress is debating a transportation bill that will have major implications for CRM. We need your help in urging members of Congress to support provisions that help protect historic properties. The BUILD America 250 Act would provide hundreds of billions in dollars...
2026 Board Elections Start Tomorrow
The voting period for the 2026 ACRA Board elections opens tomorrow! The candidates in this year's slate are vying for 7 open positions, including: Vice-President - Government Relations Vice-President - Membership Vice-President - Diversity Medium Firm Representative 3...
Your Congress in Action: June 1, 2026
Infrastructure Week is back. Sort of. Folks may recall that, during the first Trump administration, infrastructure week became a running gag among the political class due to the fact that every time the White House promised to focus on the issue, those plans were...
Webinar 6/10: Meeting the Reasonable & Good Faith Standard in Section 106 Review
The ACHP is back for the next webinar on our 2026 series! In the CRM world, it can be difficult to know when you've done enough to find and assess historic properties. It would be nice to receive an automatic email that says, "You've found them all," wouldn't it?...
Now on Demand: Archaeology for Remembrance: Aligning CRM Practice with Restorative Justice and Community-Led Memory Work
If you missed yesterday’s webinar on archaeology for remembrance, it is now available on demand! Drawing from applied case studies in African Diaspora archaeology and Restorative Justice archaeology practice, this session reframes archaeology as not only a...
Your Congress in Action: May 18, 2026
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." King Henry IV (Henry IV, Part II, W. Shakespeare, c. 1599) Also Nick Fury (Spider-Man: Far From Home, S. Lee et al, 2019) As Washington’s congressional leaders are learning this spring, being in charge means lots of stress...
Executive Order on Federal Contracting
Arguing that the federal procurement process has long "tolerated unpredictable costs, bloated overhead, and weak performance incentives," President Trump issued an Executive Order late last month making fixed-price or performance-based contracting the default for...
Webinar 5/18: Archaeology for Remembrance: Aligning CRM Practice with Restorative Justice and Community-Led Memory Work
Join us on Monday, May 18 for Archaeology for Remembrance: Aligning CRM Practice with Restorative Justice and Community-Led Memory Work. This webinar is designed to equip CRM professionals with practical tools to meaningfully work in landscapes shaped by erasure,...
Your Congress in Action: May 4, 2026
ACRA’s preservation partners are not normally name-checked on late night talk shows. Of course, these are hardly normal times, which may explain why Seth Meyers cited the National Trust for Historic Preservation as part of his April 27 show. Why did the Trust rate a...
Hot Topic Discussion 5/7: Project Management
Join us on Thursday, May 7 for the next session of our Hot Topics series, which give CRM practitioners the opportunity to participate in discussions and problem-solving for pressing issues facing the industry. The topic of this session will be project management and...