由一家私人控股企业Field Enterprises创办于1941年，后被华盛顿邮报购买。大观杂志最初只是一个很小的刊物，每次发行量都不超过1万份。而现如今该杂志已成为美国最为流行的新闻周刊杂志，拥有近7400万忠实读者，其中多一半为女性。
美国《PARADE》杂志是一本由华盛顿邮报发行的周末副刊杂志，是美国最为流行的杂志之一，拥有3200万订阅者和7100万名读者，该杂志每年都评选出“世界十大独裁者”。

Parade is printed on newsprint, although usually a higher quality of newsprint than the rest of the newspapers it accompanies but of lesser quality than magazine paper.

The magazine has one main feature article, often a smaller feature article, and a number of regular columns. There is also a significant amount of advertising for consumer products, some with clipable coupons or tear-off business reply cards.

Publishing history
The magazine was started by Marshall Field III in 1941 as a weekly magazine supplement for his own paper (the Chicago Sun) and for others in the United States. By 1946, Parade had achieved a circulation of 3.5 million.

John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, bought Parade in 1958. Booth Newspapers purchased it in 1973. Booth was purchased by Advance Publications in 1976, and Parade became a separate operating unit within Advance.[4]

Parade Digital Partners is a distribution network that includes the web site Parade.com and over 700 of the magazine's partner newspaper web sites. Parade Digital Partners has a reach of more than 30 million monthly unique visitors (comScore Q1 2014).

Throughout 2016, Gannett Company, which had produced USA Weekend, the most direct competitor to Parade until its December 2014 discontinuation, added (or in most cases, re-added) Parade to many of its Sunday newspapers as a replacement.