After Kamala Harris became the second woman to lose a presidential election to Donald J. Trump, some women wondered if the glass ceiling would ever break.
Throughout her campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris tried to pivot away from questions about the historical significance of her candidacy to her desire to serve as a president for “all Americans.”
The first presidential election The Times covered was in 1852. Things have changed a lot since the days of typewriters and motographs — see how, in archival images from decades past.
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