“We’ve reached a national milestone,” proclaimed Hillary Clinton on the evening of June 7, after her primary victories that day together with commitments from superdelegates gave her a majority of delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

It was, as she said, “the first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee. Tonight’s victory is not about one person; it belongs to generations of women and men who sacrificed and made this possible.”