In 1930, U.S. Customs confiscated copies of Voltaire's, Candide, bound for Harvard University, claiming obscenity. Voltaire's critically acclaimed satire was defended by two Harvard professors and was later admitted in a different edition. The US Post Office, in 1944, demanded the omission of Candide from a mailed Concord Books catalog. Students have the choice of writing a review, an analysis of a specific element of fiction or a biography of the author,Voltaire, and will participate in topic discussions on classroom message boards in this two-week seminar, L400 Banned Books - Candide by Voltaire.